Annotation: Eating Disorders in Children

Measuring binge eating in adolescents: Adolescent and parent versions of the questionnaire of eating and weight patterns

“…Not surprisingly, there is evidence that the prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in children and adolescents is on the rise (Bryant-Waugh & Lask, 1995). While weight consciousness appears to be more prevalent among young girls than young boys (Thelen & Cormier, 1995), there are some indications that young boys are also showing increases in disordered eating, especially binge eating (Moore, 1990).…”

Pattern of birth in anorexia nervosa I: early‐onset cases in the United Kingdom

“…This group contained 259 young people with anorexia nervosa, all diagnosed according to the Great Ormond Street Hospital criteria for child and adolescent anorexia nervosa (Bryant-Waugh & Lask, 1995). There were 227 (87.6%) females and 32 (12.4%) males.…”

Influence of parental eating disorder on children

“…Often they present to a paediatrician or child psychiatrist at age 8-12 years because of parental concern about the child's health. Such children tend to be physically healthy, and their weight and height is within the normal range (Bryant-Waugh & Kaminski, 1993). However, there has been no systematic research to examine the precise relationship between the different eating or feeding difficulties in childhood and parental eating psychopathology, and whether certain types of childhood difficulty are particularly related to parental eating disturbance.…”

“…They found that mothers whose daughters' eating was disordered had more eating problems themselves. Mothers of girls with disordered eating also thought that their daughters should lose more weight than did the mothers of girls who had no Box1.Typesof eating and feeding disorders in children (Bryant-Waugh& Kaminski, 1993) Anorexia nervosa Food avoidance emotional disorder Food refusal Pervasive refusal Selective eating Bulimia nervosa Appetite loss secondary to depression such disorder, and the former also thought their daughters were less attractive than the girls judged themselves. The study by Attie & BrooksGunn (1989), however, did not support these findings.…”