Eating Disorder Behaviors Are Increasing: Findings from Two Sequential Community Surveys in South Australia

Phillipa J Hay, Jonathan Mond, Petra Buttner and Anita Darby

PLOS ONE, 2008, vol. 3, issue 2, 1-5

Abstract: Background: Evidence for an increase in the prevalence of eating disorders is inconsistent. Our aim was to determine change in the population point prevalence of eating disorder behaviors over a 10-year period. Methodology/Principal Findings: Eating disorder behaviors were assessed in consecutive general population surveys of men and women conducted in 1995 (n = 3001, 72% respondents) and 2005 (n = 3047, 63.1% respondents). Participants were randomly sampled from households in rural and metropolitan South Australia. There was a significant (all p

Date: 2008
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