Eating attitudes, body image and risk for eating disorders in a group of Spanish dancers

Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera ^[1] ; Patricia Bolaños-Ríos ^[2] ; Eva Valero-Blanco ^[1] ; Ángeles Ortega-de-la-Torre ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad Pablo de Olavide
  
  Universidad Pablo de Olavide
  
  Sevilla, España
2. [2] Instituto de Ciencias del Comportamiento, Sevilla, España
Localización: Nutrición hospitalaria: Órgano oficial de la Sociedad Española de Nutrición Clínica y Metabolismo (SENPE), ISSN-e 1699-5198, ISSN 0212-1611, Vol. 33, Nº. 5 (Septiembre-Octubre), 2016, págs. 1213-1221
Idioma: inglés
Títulos paralelos:
- Actitudes alimentarias, imagen corporal y riesgo de trastornos alimentarios en un grupo de bailarines españoles
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Resumen
- Introduction: Prevalence of eating disorders (ED) and discrepancies between actual weight and weight perception seem much higher in dancers. The aims analysed in 77 dancers were: risk for ED; relationship between eating attitudes and psychological variables; dieting and self-weighing, and body image distortion.
  
  Method: Weight- and body image-related variables, dieting, self-reported physical fitness, specifi c ED-related variables and other psychological variables were assessed. The robust Huber’s model was applied in order to test the influence of the variables analysed on the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) scores. In case of categorical variables, the Chi-square ( χ2-test) or the Fisher’s exact test were applied.
  
  Results: Higher risk of ED was not obtained. Despite the relationship between EAT-40 and BMI, body appreciation and drive for thinness, scores on EAT-40 and BMI do not suggest higher risk in dancers. Dancers had a similar weight perception than other populations and body dissatisfaction seems not to be worse than the reported in other types of participants.
  
  Conclusions: Despite some limitations, our study adds some data in this fi eld of study bearing in mind the use of a cluster of variables previously not taken into account as a whole.