Abnormal eating attitudes in London schoolgirls--a prospective epidemiological study: outcome at twelve month follow-up.

摘要: The occurrence and course of eating disorder in a large representative population 15-year-old London schoolgirls has been assessed using two-stage survey methodology. Attempts to control weight were common often transient. Dieting was the great majority girls found be benign practice without progression more extreme concerns about food weight. However, small proportion dieters did become cases formed new at follow-up. relative risk becoming eight times that non-dieters. Many factors conventionally associated with attempting than caseness. These included pre-morbid personality, obesity family pathology. Other factors, including social class, career choice psychosexual development, had no association either or