Prevalence of Anorexia Nervosa: a Portuguese Population Study

✍ Scribed by Isabel do Carmo; D. Reis; P. Varandas; Dulce Bouça; Dione Padre Santo; A. Neves; Isabel André; D. Sampaio; A. Galvão-Teles

• Book ID: 102658313
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 704 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-4133
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0968(199609)4:3<157::aid-erv126>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

There has been no epidemiological study done on Anorexia Nervosa (AN) in the Portuguese population of Continental Portugal. In the economical, social and cultural areas, this counq is in a transitional situation. A population of 2422 girls fiom the Lisbon and Tagus Valley area was studied through a questionnaire that included the criteria definition of AN and other issues concerning the changing pattern of cultural image and eating behawiour. We found 0.4 per cent of AN, 12.6 per cent of subclinical illness and 7 per cent with only body image disturbance. The total population included 38 per cent that wished to be thinner, 49 per cent that felt they had a fat body part and 5 1.5 per cent that had a 'horror of being heavier'. The results confirm the hypothesis that Portugal is in a transitional situation. CCC 1072-4133/96/030157-14 8 1996 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and Fating Disorders h i a t i o n European Eating Disorders Review 4(3), 157-170 (1996) Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no Yes no If you need to see a doctor about this subject you can go to the Eating Disorders