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Prevalence of eating disorders in adolescent girls in Siberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

N. Semenova ,
H. Slobodskaya  and
E. Rezun
N. Semenova*
Affiliation:
Scientific Research Institute of Medical Problems of the North, Department Of Child’s Physical And Mental Health, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
H. Slobodskaya
Affiliation:
Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution «Scientific Research Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine», Department Of Child Development And Individual Differences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
E. Rezun
Affiliation:
Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution «Scientific Research Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine», Department Of Child Development And Individual Differences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Eating disorders (ED) are an urgent public health problem, however, many adolescents with clinical symptoms fail to meet stringent diagnostic criteria.

Objectives

To estimate the prevalence of eating disorders (ED) and subthreshold eating disorders (SED) in adolescent girls.

Methods

A cross-sectional study of girls attending secondary schools (n = 917) was carried out. The sample comprised of 18.3% early adolescents (aged 12-13), 51% middle adolescents (aged 14-15), and 30.6% late adolescents (aged 16-17). We used the Body Image and Eating Distress scale (Koskelainen et al., 2001) coded on a 1-3 scale. The answers were scored on a scale of 1-3. Adolescents scoring 12 or above on four items measuring body dissatisfaction were considered as dissatisfied with their bodies and were further divided into two subgroups: girls scoring 10 or above on three items measuring eating distress were considered as having ED, whereas girls scoring less than 10 were considered as having SED.

Results

The prevalence of ED was 2.1% (CI 1.4-3.3), the prevalence of SED was 9.6% (CI 7.8-11.7). In early adolescence, the prevalence of SED was 1.6% (CI 0.9-2.7). In middle adolescence, the prevalence of SED was 5.1% (CI 3.9-6.7), the prevalence of ED was 0.9% (CI 0.5-1.8). In late adolescence, the prevalence of SED was 2.8% (CI 1.9-4.1), the prevalence of ED was 1.2% (CI 0.7-2.1).

Conclusions

In adolescent girls, the SED are 4.6 times commoner than overt above-threshold ED. During adolescence, the prevalence of SED decreases, while the prevalence of ED increases with age.

Disclosure

The reported study was funded by grant RNF according to the research project № 21-15-00033

Keywords

EpidemiologyAdolescentsEating Disordersgirls
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S210
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