Direct and indirect effects of sociocultural influences on disordered eating among Malaysian male and female university students. A mediation analysis of psychological distress

Gan, Wan Ying; Taib, Mohd Nasir Mohd; Shariff, Zalilah Mohd; Hazizi, Abu Saad

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2011.03.005

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“…In their sample of male and female college students, Gan et al (2011) observed a similar tendency for disordered eating and found that psychological distress mediates the relationship between socio-cultural influences and disordered eating. Thus, according to the current results, we cannot consider adolescent boys with pathological eating attitudes and behaviours as a group more at risk for developing eating disorders relative to girls.…”

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Not just a western girls' problem: eating attitudes among Israeli-Arab adolescent boys and girls

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Tzischinsky

2012

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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The aim of the study was to compare eating attitudes and behaviours between IsraeliArab adolescent boys and girls from two religious, age and residential settings subgroups. The sample consisted of 1966 Israeli-Arab adolescents, from Grades 7-12 (42% boys, 93% Muslims and 7% Christians), who completed the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26), demographic and clinical questionnaires. The girls had significantly higher EAT-26 scores than boys. Of the students, 17.6% (18.7% of girls and 16.4% of boys) had disturbed eating attitudes . No significant differences were found between girls and boys in age and religious affiliation subgroups; however, more girls in urban areas had disturbed eating attitudes than boys. The results demonstrate a high prevalence of disturbed eating attitudes among both male and female Israeli-Arab adolescents and emphasise that boys are at risk as much as girls. It is suggested that there are more similarities than differences between boys and girls.

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Not just a western girls' problem: eating attitudes among Israeli-Arab adolescent boys and girls

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Azaiza

Tzischinsky

2012

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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“…The data was stratified accordingly into categories of age (18–24 years and ≥25 years) according to previous studies carried out among Malaysian and university students [28–30], ethnicity of either Malay or non-Malay, academic programme (which was classified into three levels: foundation studies, undergraduates and postgraduates) and smoking habits (current smoker or non-current smoker). Descriptive statistics, comprising of proportions and percentages were presented.…”

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The Prevalence and Symptoms Characteristic of Functional Constipation Using Rome III Diagnostic Criteria among Tertiary Education Students

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Background and AimsFunctional constipation is very common with heterogeneous symptoms that have substantial impact on patient quality of life as well as medical resources which are rarely reported as life-threatening. The aim of this study is to examine the prevalence and symptoms characteristic of functional constipation (FC) by using Rome III diagnostic criteria among tertiary education students with an intention to introduce treatment in the future.MethodsDemographic, socio-economics characteristics and symptoms of FC using the Rome III criteria were sought using a questionnaire administered to Malaysian students in a tertiary education setting. Other data obtained were the general health status, lifestyle factors and anthropometric measurements. Using a simple random sampling method, a total of 1662 students were recruited in the study with a response rate of 95.0%. Sampled data are presented as frequency and percentage and stratified accordingly into categories for Chi-square analysis.ResultsThe prevalence of functional constipation among the students was 16.2%, with a significantly higher prevalence among women (17.4%) than men (12.5%). Hard or lumpy stool, incomplete evacuation, anorectal obstruction and straining were reported as the commonest symptoms experienced. Type 3 was the most frequent stool consistency experienced among the constipated individuals (35.2%). Only 4.4% of individuals reported having less than three defecations per week. Using univariable analysis, FC was significantly associated with sex (odds ratio: 1.48, 95% CI: 1.06–2.06) and age group (odds ratio: 1.34, 95% CI: 1.01–1.79) with P value < 0.05 significance level. In multivariate logistic regression analysis, only sex was found significantly associated with FC (adjusted odds ratio: 1.53, 95% CI: 1.08–2.17, P < 0.05).ConclusionsBased on the prevalence rate, constipation is a common problem among tertiary education students (16.2%), with significantly more prevalence among the female respondents. Early detection of symptoms and further intervention studies focusing on treatment recommendation in improving the symptoms are essential.

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“…French studies on this topic are scarce and refer to nutritional or dietary preoccupation (Boujut, & Bruchon-Schweitzer, 2010). However, DE attitudes are a problem for not only females but also males (Dominé, Berchtold, Akré, & Suris, 2009;Gan, Mohd Nasir, Zalilah, & Haziza, 2011), and several authors report that the risk for DE for men and women may be different (Elgin & Pritchard, 2006;Liao et al, 2010).…”

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Relationship Between Eating-Behavior Disorders and Psychological Parameters in Male First-Year Physical Education Students

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2012

International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism

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This study explores the prevalence of disordered eating attitudes in a sample of male first-year university students engaged in a physical education program and examines the relationships between emotional intelligence, coping, and emotional eating in relation to disordered-eating (DE) attitudes. A total of 140 students completed the following questionnaires: the eating attitudes test, the bar-on emotional intelligence questionnaire, the coping inventory stress scale, and the Dutch eating behavior questionnaire. The number of participants represented 80% of the male students registered in this discipline at the authors' university. Twenty percent of students presented DE attitudes even though they were of normal weight. The bar-on EQ-I results indicated that students with DE attitudes had lower levels of emotional intelligence (EI) scores than students without DE attitudes (control group). Moreover, they scored higher than the control group on coping styles such as avoidance-oriented coping, emotion-oriented coping, and emotional eating. The DE group presented a positive correlation between DE attitudes symptoms and both avoidance- and emotion-oriented coping but a negative correlation between DE attitudes and task-oriented coping. There was also a significant negative correlation between DE attitudes and EI score. Another result from this group indicated an association between EI score and emotional-eating score (p < .05, r = -.44) and also a positive correlation between emotion-oriented coping and emotional eating (p < .01, r = .47). The findings highlight future research potential on the role of emotions and EI in DE symptoms, which may be beneficial in the context of collaborative care management intervention.

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Direct and indirect effects of sociocultural influences on disordered eating among Malaysian male and female university students. A mediation analysis of psychological distress

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Not just a western girls' problem: eating attitudes among Israeli-Arab adolescent boys and girls

Not just a western girls' problem: eating attitudes among Israeli-Arab adolescent boys and girls

The Prevalence and Symptoms Characteristic of Functional Constipation Using Rome III Diagnostic Criteria among Tertiary Education Students

Relationship Between Eating-Behavior Disorders and Psychological Parameters in Male First-Year Physical Education Students

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