College students' mental models for recognizing anorexia and bulimia nervosa

Appetite

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 289-300

  Hunt, Jennifer S ^a   Rothman, Alexander J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Bulimia nervosa; Health attitudes; Mental models of illness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; BULIMIA; COLLEGE STUDENT; COUNSELING; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE COURSE; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODEL; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BULIMIA NERVOSA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33947124944     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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