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College students' mental models for recognizing anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
Knowledge about eating disorders influences lay people's ability to recognize individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) and refer them to professional treatment. We assessed mental models (stored knowledge) of AN and BN in 106 college students. Results indicated that most students have general, but not specific, information about AN and BN's symptoms, consequences, causes,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1896
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-189608000-00020