Validity of the eating attitudes test: A study of mexican eating disorders patients

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 243-248

  Alvarez Rayon G ^a   Mancilla Diaz J M ^a   Vazquez Arevalo R ^a   Unikel Santoncini, C ^b   Caballero Romo, A ^b   Mercado Corona, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Earing disorders; EAT 40; Psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EATING DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEXICO; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; BULIMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EATING DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEXICO; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 20444496050     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03325077     Document Type: Article

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