introduction: eating disorder symptoms and social anxiety can be occurring in the same time. also social anxiety is one of the important factors predicting eating disorder symptoms which vary among different cultures and countries. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between eating disorder symptoms and social anxiety in school boys.  materials and methods: this was a cross-...

Transtornos alimentares, como a bulimia, são psicopatologias de etiologia multifatorial que têm nas relações familiares um dos principais fatores desencadeadores e mantenedores dossintomas. Este estudo teve por objetivo analisar as vivências das na perspectiva uma jovem diagnosticada com sua mãe seu pai. Trata-se caso qualitativo, descritivo transversal, cujo delineamento abarca tríade pai-mãe-...

Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback, a technique which encourages slow meditative breathing, was offered to 25 in-patients with various eating disorder diagnoses-anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. We found that this modality had no serious side effects, and was subjectively useful to most participants. An enhanced ability to generate highly coherent HRV patterns i...

OBJECTIVE Bullying is a common childhood experience with enduring psychosocial consequences. The aim of this study was to test whether bullying increases risk for eating disorder symptoms. METHOD Ten waves of data on 1,420 participants between ages 9 and 25 were used from the prospective population-based Great Smoky Mountains Study. Structured interviews were used to assess bullying involveme...

E MERGING scientific evidence of the increasing prevalence of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia in particular, necessitates that physicians be prepared both to diagnose and treat these disorders appropriately. Current estimates indicate that anorexia nervosa and bulimia affect 10% to 15% of adolescent girls and young women, and estimates of the prevalence of bulimia among college w...

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