Disturbed eating tendency and related factors in grade four to six elementary school students in Taiwan

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-120

  Wong, Yueching ^a,b   Chang, Yu Jhen ^a   Tsao, Shu Wei ^a  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Chung Shan Medical Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Children's Eating Attitude Test 26; Elementary school students; Locus of control; Media; Significant others

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; TAIWAN;

ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EATING DISORDERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; TAIWAN; THINNESS;

EID: 84894270899     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6133/apjcn.2014.23.1.07     Document Type: Article

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