Periodical
Bulimia: Symptoms and Syndromes in an Urban Population
| العنوان: | Bulimia: Symptoms and Syndromes in an Urban Population |
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| المؤلفون: | Ben-Tovim, D. I., Subbiah, Nandini, Scheutz, Brenton, Morton, Jacqueline |
| المصدر: | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry; March 1989, Vol. 23 Issue: 1 p73-80, 8p |
| مستخلص: | The widely used DSM-Ill criteria for the diagnosis of bulimia essentially define bulimia as a syndrome of guilty, secretive and subjectively hard to control binge over-eating. A self-report questionnaire for bulimic behavior was administered to three community and two hospital populations in South Australia. 13% of females in the community samples could be categorized as bulimic according to the DSM-Ill criteria. Those criteria did not adequately define the behaviour of patients in treatment for bulimia in a Weight Disorders Unit, 85% of whom not only binged, but induced vomiting afterwards. When diagnostic criteria were more closely aligned to clinical experience, the prevalence of bulimia in the community appeared closer to 1–2%. New DSM criteria (DSM-Ill-R) have been proposed and prevalence rates using them fell within the 1–2% range. |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Supplemental Index |
| تدمد: | 00048674 14401614 |
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| DOI: | 10.3109/00048678909062595 |