Epidemiology of eating disorders: Creating opportunities to move the current classification paradigm forward
✍ Scribed by Wade, Tracey D.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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✦ Synopsis
The three articles presented in the epidemiology section of this special classification issue represent investigations across three populations in the USA: Asians, Blacks, and Latinos. The strengths of these studies are multiple. All of the data sets were taken from large, nationally representative population studies, with the first and last of these papers using data from the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). Across all papers, the epidemiology of eating disorders was examined in adults, with an additional investigation of adolescents (aged 13-17 years) in the Black population. Diagnoses were generated using the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI), an omnibus psychiatric interview that generates DSM-IV eating disorder diagnoses for the lifetime as well as the previous 12month period, and which has been used in recent epidemiological studies. 1,2 Making direct comparison possible across the three populations, all investigators used the nomenclature system of the National Comorbidity Survey, 1 yielding diagnoses of anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), and a meta-category, all binge eating disorders (BE). In addition, a category of so-called ''partial AN'' was investigated in the Latino population, where the amenorrhea criterion was not required. A welcome addition to the epidemiology literature was investigation of males as well as females across the three studies.