A survey of anorexia nervosa using the Arabic version of the EAT-26 and "gold standard" interviews among Omani adolescents

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 304-311

  Al Adawi, S ^a,b   Dorvlo, A S S ^a   Burke, D T ^b   Moosa, S ^a   Al Bahlani, S ^c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Oman)

Author keywords

Arab Islamic; Eating attitude test; Oman; Test reliability; Test validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARAB; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; OMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARABS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; OMAN; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL CHANGE; STUDENTS;

EID: 0037867088     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324977     Document Type: Article

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