Journal article
Transcultural aspects of eating disorders: A critical literature review
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vol.16(3), pp.377-394
1992
Abstract
A review of studies addressing anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa among Native Americans, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Africans, and Middle Easterners yielded only 35 studies, of which 22 were qualitative case reports, three were clinical quantitative studies, and ten were non-clinical quantitative studies. The case studies reported symptoms similar to those of Caucasian patients, and eating disorders were reported in all SES classes. The clinical studies, all reported from Asian countries, described a number of cases for eating disorders quite different from one another. The non-clinical quantitative studies reported a number of cases consistent with the ranges previously reported for controlled samples of non-clinical Caucasian populations. We found few or no quantitative studies on eating disorders from Hispanic, Middle Eastern, African, or Asian countries other than Japan.
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- Title
- Transcultural aspects of eating disorders: A critical literature review
- Authors
- Cindy Davis (Author) - UCLA, United StatesJoel Yager (Author) - UCLA, United States
- Publication details
- Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vol.16(3), pp.377-394
- Publisher
- Springer New York LLC
- Date published
- 1992
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF00052156
- ISSN
- 0165-005X
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450069702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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