The Role Of Eating Disorders In Adolescents
Eating disorder has become a rising concern for adolescences in many countries, especially in the United States. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) eating disorders are more often seen around age of 13 to 17 year olds, including “an estimate of 2.7 percent for those suffering from an eating disorder and that girls are more than two and a half times as likely as boys to have an eating disorder” (NIMH, 2016). NIMH.gov is a very credible site, since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has reviewed the information published. Eating disorder has been linked to many negative psychologically health consequences. The negative impacts of the psychological health include low esteem, depression, and body dissatisfaction.
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Patten, R. Selzer. C. Coffey, J. Carlin, and R. Wolfe addresses a three year study on eating disorder in adolescences ages 14-15 in Australia. Eating disorders are found more commonly in younger females than males. The study is conducted in randomly selecting 44 secondary school in Victoria, Australia. The following measures were used in this study; these measures include eating disorders, weight and height, dieting and exercising, and psychiatric morbidity. The eating disorders test is a test that uses in accordance to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to assess the criteria for either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. The weight is measured in 0.1 kg and is measured to the nearest centimeter. Dieting levels depend on calorie counting, the amount of food reduced in each meal, and the number of meal skipped. Exercises measured depends in the daily participation in sport or a formal exercise routine. The psychiatric morbidity measured the mental health status of individual adolescences. The software that was used in this study was STATA software. This software uses “logistic regression analyses to allow for probability weighting and complex survey” (Patten, Selzer, Coffey, Carlin, & Wolfe, 1999, …show more content…
(1999). Onset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.BMJ: British Medical Journal, 318(7186),
Patten, R. Selzer. C. Coffey, J. Carlin, and R. Wolfe addresses a three year study on eating disorder in adolescences ages 14-15 in Australia. Eating disorders are found more commonly in younger females than males. The study is conducted in randomly selecting 44 secondary school in Victoria, Australia. The following measures were used in this study; these measures include eating disorders, weight and height, dieting and exercising, and psychiatric morbidity. The eating disorders test is a test that uses in accordance to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to assess the criteria for either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. The weight is measured in 0.1 kg and is measured to the nearest centimeter. Dieting levels depend on calorie counting, the amount of food reduced in each meal, and the number of meal skipped. Exercises measured depends in the daily participation in sport or a formal exercise routine. The psychiatric morbidity measured the mental health status of individual adolescences. The software that was used in this study was STATA software. This software uses “logistic regression analyses to allow for probability weighting and complex survey” (Patten, Selzer, Coffey, Carlin, & Wolfe, 1999, …show more content…
(1999). Onset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.BMJ: British Medical Journal, 318(7186),