A Population-Based Study of Eating Disorders in Young Persons in Malta: Prevalence in Males Nearly Equals that in Females
Keywords:
eating disorders, adolescents, children, male eating disorders, Children’s Eating Attitudes Test
Abstract
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of eating disorders and attitudes to food and eating for youths between 10 and 16 years of age, in order to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders in young people through empirical research in a previously unexamined area.
Methods: The tool selected for this population-based study was the ChEAT, i.e. the Children’s Eating Attitudes Test. A representative cohort of 400, randomly sampled, young people aged 10-16, were asked all 26 questions of the ChEAT via telephone, while their parents/guardians were asked socio-demographic questions,
Results: 5.5% (2.25% M, 3.25% F) of the cohort scored at or above the cut-off of 20, indicating the presence of an eating disorder. No significant associations were found between disordered eating and socio-demographic data.
Conclusions: Findings indicate that males are catching up to females in eating disorder diagnoses. A male slightly higher mean ChEAT ≥20 could denote that disordered eating could be more acute for young men who are between 10 to 16 years old than it is for young women aged 10 to 16. The lack of significant association between the disordered eating and socio-demographic data could be a factor of the ages under examination in this study, and possibly these associations could arise at later ages.
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Falzon Aquilina F., Grech A., Zerafa D., Agius M., & Voon V. (2015). 'DAR KENN GHAL SAHHTEK' - AN EATING DISORDER AND OBESITY SERVICE IN MALTA. Psychiatria Danubina, 27(suppl 1), 526-529. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/384228
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NEDA: Eating disorders in men and boys (2022). National Eating Disorders Association. https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/general-information/research-on-males
Ornstein, R. M., Essayli, J. H., Nicely, T. A., Masciulli, E., & Lane‐Loney, S. (2017). Treatment of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder in a cohort of young patients in a partial hospitalization program for eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 50(9), 1067-1074. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22737
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Pritchard, M. (2008). Disordered eating in undergraduates: Does gender role orientation influence men and women the same way? Sex Roles, 59, 282-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-008-9449-8
Raevuori, A., Keski-Rahkonen, A., & Hoek, H. W. (2014). A review of eating disorders in males. Current opinion in psychiatry, 27(6), 426-430. https://doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000113
Rolland, K., Farnill, D., & Griffiths, R. A. (1997). Body figure perceptions and eating attitudes among Australian schoolchildren aged 8 to 12 years. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 21(3), 273-278. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(199704)21:3<273::AID-EAT7>3.0.CO;2-H
Sancho, C., Asorey, O., Arija, V., & Canals, J. (2005). Psychometric characteristics of the children's eating attitudes test in a Spanish sample. European Eating Disorders Review: The Professional Journal of the Eating Disorders Association, 13(5), 338-343. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.643
Schmidt, U., Adan, R., Böhm, I., Campbell, I. C., Dingemans, A., Ehrlich, S., ... & Zipfel, S. (2016). Eating disorders: the big issue. The Lancet Psychiatry, 3(4), 313-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(16)00081-X
Shu, C. Y., Limburg, K., Harris, C., McCormack, J., Hoiles, K. J., Hamilton, M. J., & Watson, H. J. (2015). Clinical presentation of eating disorders in young males at a tertiary setting. Journal of eating disorders, 3(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-015-0075-x
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Solmi, F., Hotopf, M., Hatch, S. L., Treasure, J., & Micali, N. (2016). Eating disorders in a multi-ethnic inner-city UK sample: prevalence, comorbidity and service use. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51, 369-381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-015-1146-7
Stice, E., Becker, C. B., & Yokum, S. (2013). Eating disorder prevention: Current evidence‐base and future directions. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 46(5), 478-485. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22105
Stice, E., Marti, C. N., Shaw, H., & Jaconis, M. (2009). An 8-year longitudinal study of the natural history of threshold, subthreshold, and partial eating disorders from a community sample of adolescents. Journal of abnormal psychology, 118(3), 587. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016481
Strother, E., Lemberg, R., Stanford, S. C., & Turberville, D. (2013). Eating disorders in men: underdiagnosed, undertreated, and misunderstood. In Current findings on males with eating disorders (pp. 13-22). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/10640266.2012.715512
Treasure, J., Claudino, A. M., & Zucker, N. (2010). 02/13. Eating Disorders. Lancet (London, England), 375(9714), 583-593. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61748-7
Treasure, J., Stein, D., & Maguire, S. (2015). Has the time come for a staging model to map the course of eating disorders from high risk to severe enduring illness? An examination of the evidence. Early intervention in psychiatry, 9(3), 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.12170
van Hoeken, D., & Hoek, H. W. (2020). Review of the burden of eating disorders: mortality, disability, costs, quality of life, and family burden. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 33(6), 521. https://doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000641
Wing T. & Zhang M. (2015). Eating disorders. InnovAiT 8,685-691. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755738015594475
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2023-06-13
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Cuff, A., Grech, A., Azzopardi, A., & Zerafa, D. (2023, June 13). A Population-Based Study of Eating Disorders in Young Persons in Malta: Prevalence in Males Nearly Equals that in Females. Humanities and Social Science Research, 6(2), p21. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.30560/hssr.v6n2p21
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