Eating disorders: lessons from a cross-cultural study
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 19 (4), 955-958
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700005675
Abstract
SYNOPSIS Five hundred and eighty schoolgirls living in a small North Indian industrial town were screened using the EAT-26. Although twenty-nine per cent scored above the threshold for the questionnaire (≥ 20), closer scrutiny of the pattern of responses revealed misinterpretations of a large number of questions possibly on a conceptual basis. Linguistic and conceptual pitfalls inherent to cross-cultural epidemiological research are discussed with reference to previous work.Keywords
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