Rural/Urban Differences in the Distribution of Eating Disorder Symptoms among Adolescents from Community Samples
Rural/Urban Differences in the Distribution of Eating Disorder Symptoms among Adolescents from Community Samples
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社区样本中青少年饮食失调症状分布的城乡差异
DOI:
10.1080/00048670701332292
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
C. Masala
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
A. Preti;C. Pinna;S. Nocco;S. Pilia;E. Mulliri;V. Micheli;Maria Consuleo Casta;Donatella Rita Petretto;C. Masala
Objective: Rural/urban differences in the prevalence of mental disorders have often been reported in the last 30 years, among others in the distribution of eating disorder symptoms and suicide rates. The role of sex, age and socioeconomic status in the differences by place of residence has often been neglected in past studies. Method: Two independent community samples of students (mean age=17.4 years, SD=1.4), taken from among those attending high school in an urban district (Cagliari; n=817) and in a rural one (Carbonia; n=507) of south Sardinia, Italy, were invited to fill in the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), the Bulimic Investigatory Test of Edinburgh (BITE), the Body Attitudes Test (BAT) and the revised Hopkins Symptom checklist (SCL-90-R). Results: Female students scored higher than male students on all inventories. In male participants, the scores on the EAT were higher in the urban than in the rural sample. Conversely, in both male and female students the rural sample reported higher scores on the BITE symptoms subscale. When the comparison was confined to the fraction of those who scored higher than the suggested cut-off on the EAT and the BITE, students in the urban sample outnumbered those in the rural sample. No other differences were found. Socioeconomic status and age did not influence the differences in the reporting of eating disorder symptoms by place of residence. Conclusions: Although caution is required when reading the findings drawn from self-report instruments, it is evident that the factors influencing the distribution of eating disorder symptoms and their psychological correlates by place of residence are far more complex than currently thought.
影响因子:
7
作者:
MacKinnon, DP;Lockwood, CM;Sheets, V
通讯作者:
Sheets, V
DOI:
10.1016/0197-2456(90)90005-m
发表时间:
1990-04-01
期刊:
CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS
影响因子:
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作者:
DUPONT, WD;PLUMMER, WD
通讯作者:
PLUMMER, WD
影响因子:
4.4
作者:
Smith,GT;Hohlstein,LA;Atlas,JG
通讯作者:
Atlas,JG