Adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: A population-based study
© 2015 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. Background: Binge eating disorder (BED) is relatively common in young people and is associated with marked impairment in physical and mental health.Aims: We examined perceptions of the severity of BED in a population-based sample of adolescents.Methods: Male (n...
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| author | Anderson, Rebecca Gratwick-Sarll, K. Bentley, C. Harrison, C. Mond, J. |
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| description | © 2015 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. Background: Binge eating disorder (BED) is relatively common in young people and is associated with marked impairment in physical and mental health.Aims: We examined perceptions of the severity of BED in a population-based sample of adolescents.Methods: Male (n = 531) and female (n = 1135) adolescents recruited from 12 Australian schools completed a survey that featured a vignette of a fictional female school student suffering from BED followed by a series of questions addressing perceptions of severity.Results: Approximately half of participants agreed or strongly agreed that BED is a serious problem (male: 52.0%; female: 63.2%) requiring professional treatment (male: 48.2%; female: 54.5%). Approximately one-third of boys (30.7%) believed that BED is primarily a problem of "lack of will power/self-control", whereas one in five girls (19.3%) held this view. Less than half of participants (male: 42.7%; female: 44.1%) believed that someone with BED would be deserving of sympathy.Conclusion: The findings suggest that many adolescents, boys in particular, do not consider BED to be a serious mental health problem and believe that individuals with BED lack will-power and/or are undeserving of sympathy. Awareness and understanding of BED may need to be addressed in school-based mental health promotion programs. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-685692018-06-29T12:35:01Z Adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: A population-based study Anderson, Rebecca Gratwick-Sarll, K. Bentley, C. Harrison, C. Mond, J. © 2015 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. Background: Binge eating disorder (BED) is relatively common in young people and is associated with marked impairment in physical and mental health.Aims: We examined perceptions of the severity of BED in a population-based sample of adolescents.Methods: Male (n = 531) and female (n = 1135) adolescents recruited from 12 Australian schools completed a survey that featured a vignette of a fictional female school student suffering from BED followed by a series of questions addressing perceptions of severity.Results: Approximately half of participants agreed or strongly agreed that BED is a serious problem (male: 52.0%; female: 63.2%) requiring professional treatment (male: 48.2%; female: 54.5%). Approximately one-third of boys (30.7%) believed that BED is primarily a problem of "lack of will power/self-control", whereas one in five girls (19.3%) held this view. Less than half of participants (male: 42.7%; female: 44.1%) believed that someone with BED would be deserving of sympathy.Conclusion: The findings suggest that many adolescents, boys in particular, do not consider BED to be a serious mental health problem and believe that individuals with BED lack will-power and/or are undeserving of sympathy. Awareness and understanding of BED may need to be addressed in school-based mental health promotion programs. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68569 10.3109/09638237.2015.1057329 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | Anderson, Rebecca Gratwick-Sarll, K. Bentley, C. Harrison, C. Mond, J. Adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: A population-based study |
| title | Adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: A population-based study |
| title_full | Adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: A population-based study |
| title_fullStr | Adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: A population-based study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: A population-based study |
| title_short | Adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: A population-based study |
| title_sort | adolescents perception of the severity of binge eating disorder: a population-based study |
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