Eating disorders as a public health issue: Prevalence and attributable impairment of quality of life in an Italian community sample

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 486-492

  Carta, Mauro Giovanni ^a   Preti, Antonio ^a   Moro, Maria Francesca ^a   Aguglia, Eugenio ^b   Balestrieri, Matteo ^c   Caraci, Filippo ^b   Dell'Osso, Liliana ^d   Di Sciascio, Guido ^e   Drago, Filippo ^b   Faravelli, Carlo ^f   Hardoy, Maria Carolina ^a   D'Aloja, Ernesto ^a   Cossu, Giulia ^a   Calò, Salvatore ^e   Palumbo, Gabriella ^g   Bhugra, Dinesh ^a,h  

^a Department of Public Health Clinical and Molecular Medicine Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^g ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^h KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BULIMIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DSM-IV; DSM-IV-TR; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SHORT FORM 12; WILSON DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; EATING DISORDERS; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929133393     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2014.927753     Document Type: Article

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