Restraint and eating concern in North European and East Asian women with and without eating disorders in Australia and Singapore

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 536-545

  Soh, Nerissa Li Wey ^a,b   Touyz, Stephen ^c,d   Dobbins, Timothy A ^e   Surgenor, Lois J ^f   Clarke, Simon ^g,h   Kohn, Michael R ⁱ   Lee, Ee Lian ^j   Leow, Vincent ^k   Rieger, Elizabeth ^c   Ung, Ken Eng Khean ^c   Walter, Garry ^a  

^a New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^b Northern Sydney Local Health Network   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Peter Beumont Centre for Eating Disorders   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^g WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h University of Sydney   (Australia)

ⁱ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^j SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^k NONE

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Author keywords

Acculturation; Asian continental ancestry group; Cross cultural comparison; Eating disorders; European continental ancestry group

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; BULIMIA; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EATING DISORDER; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY LIFE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CULTURE; EATING DISORDERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SINGAPORE;

EID: 34249305493     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701332318     Document Type: Article

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