Barriers to treatment for eating disorders among ethnically diverse women

Article Abstract:

Research into barriers to treatment in an ethnically mixed community sample of women with eating disorders is presented. It was found that more than one half of the women had made treatment contact, but most had not received treatment. Many of the women who had sought treatment had been treated for a weight problem.

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Help seeking and barriers to treatment in a community sample of Mexican American and European American women with eating disorders

Article Abstract:

A study examined the treatment seeking for eating disorders in Mexican American and European American women. The results support clinical impressions that eating disorders largely go undetected and untreated and nonspecialists fail to detect eating disorders.

Diagnosis, Food and nutrition, Mexican Americans

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Caffeine intake in eating disorders

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Caffeine consumption in females with an eating disorder is compared with caffeine consumption in females without an eating disorder. The results show that caffeine consumption of young girls with eating disorders differs with that of girls without eating disorders only for anorexia nervosa but not for bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorders.

Science & research, Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Caffeine Preparations, Health aspects, Research, Women, Women's health, Caffeine

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