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CASTANO-CASTRILLON, José Jaime et al. Prevalence of risk of eating disorders in a female population of high school students, Manizales, Colombia, 2011. Rev Colomb Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2012, vol.63, n.1, pp.46-56. ISSN 0034-7434.

Objective: Determining the presence of eating behavior disorders (EBD) as a high risk factor (positive or negative) according to the EDI-2 questionnaire and associated factors in three schoolgirl populations in the city of Manizales, Colombia. Materials and methods: This was cross-sectional study in which students from three private all-girls schools in the city of Manizales filled in the eating disorder inventory (EDI-2) questionnaire. The inclusion criteria involved being in the 8th, 9th, 10thor 11th grades (i.e. aged around 14-19). Informed consent forms were signed. . Sample size was 481 students; schools and students were probabilistically sampled and stratified by institution and grade. The variables measured were sociodemographic; family Apgar and anthropometric measurements were taken. The EDI-2 subscales used were: drive for thinness, bulimia, body dissatisfaction, ineffectiveness, perfectionism, interpersonal distrust, introspective awareness, fear of maturity, asceticism, regulation of impulsiveness and social insecurity. The result was expressed as a risk factor for positive or negative eating behavior disorders; this was positive if the drive for thinness subscale had a value greater than 14. Analysis involved measures of central tendency and dispersion for continuous variables and percentages for categorical variables. Results: It was found that 24.7% of the study population had a positive risk factor for developing EBD according to the EDI-2 questionnaire. The following factors were found to be associated with an EBD: alcohol consumption (p=0.002), a family background of EBD (p=0.000), perception of being overweight (p=0.000), family functionality (p=0.000), body mass index (p=0.032) and practically all the anthropometric measurements, except size. Conclusions: The prevalence of risk factors for eating behavior disorders detected in this study showed that EBD continues to be a serious problem in female colombian adolescents.

Palavras-chave : eating behavior disorder; risk factor; female student; adolescent.

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