Disordered eating attitudes and symptomatology among adolescent girls in the United Arab Emirates

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-60

  Eapen, Valsamma ^a   Mabrouk, Abdel Azim ^b   Bin Othman, Salem ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b School Health Service   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Arab population; Cross cultural; Eating attitudes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EATING DISORDER; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS MEDIUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELEVISION; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEMOGRAPHY; EATING DISORDERS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 30344460694     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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