Traditional and new strategies in the primary prevention of eating disorders: a comparative study in Spanish adolescents.

Background: Research conducted to date into the primary prevention of eating disorders (ED) has mainly considered the provision of information regarding risk factors. Consequently, there is a need to develop new methods that go a step further, promoting a change in attitudes and behavior in the target population.

Objective: This study describes an adaptation of the Girls' Group model to the Spanish context, the main objective being to compare two types of intervention, ie, one based on this model and the other following the traditional approach of providing information.

[Analysis of eating attitudes in a sample of adolescents from Sevilla].

Background And Objective: Studies in communitarian samples are the most used for detection of eating disorders. We analyze the presence of these disorders in a sample of teenagers in Seville.

Population And Method: Two questionnaires were applied, both internationally recognized for this type of analysis (EAT-40 and SCOFF), to 318 students, male and female, 12-18 years old.