Incidence and correlates of bulimic behavior in a female high school population

A total of 440 girls from three private schools in Sydney completed a self‐report questionnaire that asked about their body‐ and weight‐related attitudes and practices, and assessed their reactions to the phenomenology of binge eating. The findings emphasize the integral relationship between dieting and disordered eating. Those who wanted to lose at least 7 kg, and were dieting most of the time, were more likely to be categorized as having a “severe” binge eating problem than were those who were happy with their weight and were “never” or “rarely” dieting. © 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Dieting, binge eating, and some of their correlates among secondary school girls

Huon

1994

“…During the last decade we have seen a significant increase in the incidence of bulimia nervosa (Pyle, Mitchell, Eckert, & Halvorson, 1983;Johnson, Lewis, Love, Lewis, & Stuckey, 1984;. The symptom profile of these patients has been refined in the psychiatric literature such that the disorder can be diagnosed with increasing specificity (APA, 1980;.…”

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Differences in treatment outcome between borderline and nonborderline bulimics at one-year follow-up

Johnson

Tobin

Dennis

1990

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Patients (n = 55) seeking treatment for eating disorders were evaluated for eating attitudes and behaviors, weight history, psychiatric symptoms, and presence of borderline personality organization. Patients were divided into borderline (n = 21) and nonborderline (n = 19) subgroups and were compared on the above dimensions after 1 year. There were relatively few differences between borderline and nonborderline bulimics in severity of symptomatic eating behavior and attitudes at the initial evaluation. However, the borderline patients were significantly more disturbed on a number of relevant dimensions, including general psychiatric symptoms. Follow‐up assessment showed that although most patients in the nonborderline group remitted their symptoms, patients in the borderline group continued to demonstrate clinically significant levels of disturbed eating patterns, Drive‐for‐Thinness, Body Dissatisfaction, and depression. The clinical and research implications for these findings are discussed.

“…Halmi, Falk, and Schwartz (1981) reported that 4.2% of a series of 355 college students (59.8% of whom were women) reported that they had used diuretics, and 0.6% reported using them once a week or more often. Johnson, Lewis, Love, Stuckey, and Lewis (1984), in their study of 1268 high school students, reported that 4% reported using diuretics; 2.1% monthly, 0.7% weekly, and 1.2% on a daily basis. The precise reason for the diuretic use or misuse in these series was not clear.…”

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Pseudo-Bartter's syndrome, diuretic abuse, idiopathic edema, and eating disorders

Mitchell

Pomeroy

Seppala

et al. 1988

Literature concerning Bartter's syndrome, pseudo‐Bartter's syndrome, idiopathic edema, and diuretic abuse is reviewed. The authors suggest that many of the patients who present with the physiological disturbances associated with pseudo‐Bartter's syndrome or with diuretic abuse, and a subgroup of those who use diuretics for idiopathic edema, have an underlying eating disorder. The pharmacology and physiology of diuretics are reviewed.