Changes in genetic and environmental influences on disordered eating between pre-menarche and postmenarche girls. A twin study.

significantly increase during puberty. The goal of this research is to evaluate changes during puberty which could have genetic and environmental influences on a broad spectrum of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. Methods.

Teasing as a risk factor for abnormal eating behaviours: A prospective study in an adolescent population.

Introduction: There are discrepancies in the literature about the role of teasing in the onset of eating pathology. This article aims to establish the influence of teasing in abnormal eating behaviors and attitudes in the adolescent population.

Material And Methods: This is a two-year prospective study conducted in 7,167 adolescents between 13 and 15 years of age.

Prevalence and comorbidity of eating disorders among a community sample of adolescents: 2-year follow-up.

The previous literature about comorbidity between eating disorders (ED) and other DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in adolescence has employed cross-sectional studies with clinical samples, where the comorbid disorders were diagnosed retrospectively. The present study aims to overcome these limitations by the analysis of comorbidity in a community population during 2-year follow-up. A semi-structured interview was applied to a teenager sample.

Teasing and disordered eating behaviors in Spanish adolescents.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the associations between peer teasing and body dissatisfaction (BD), emotional symptoms, drive for thinness (DT), and abnormal eating behaviors, as well as to analyze the mediating role of gender and body mass index (BMI) in such disorders. We screened 57,997 school children between 13 and 16 years of age. Scores in weight-related teasing and competency-related teasing were higher among girls, as well as overweight or obese individuals.

Children's eating attitudes test: validation in a sample of Spanish schoolchildren.

Objective: To validate the Spanish version of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT).

Method: The factor structure and other psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire were examined using the answers of 38,554 schoolchildren. Diagnostic efficiency was based on a standardized clinical interview of 968 schoolchildren who had previously completed the questionnaire.