The prevalence of eating pathology and its relationship to knowledge of eating disorders among high school girls in Japan

European Eating Disorders Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 122-128

  Nishizono Maher, Aya ^a   Miyake, Yuko ^b   Nakane, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drive for thinness; Japan; Knowledge; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVE; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 1642326029     PISSN: 10724133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/erv.558     Document Type: Article

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