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Correlates of sexual abuse in women with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. 1992

J M deGroot, and S Kennedy, and G Rodin, and G McVey

University of Toronto, Toronto Hospital, Ontario.

Of 184 female outpatients meeting the DSM-III-R criteria, for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or anorexia nervosa with bulimia, approximately 25% reported previous sexual abuse. Furthermore, previous sexual abuse was associated with greater psychological disturbance, measured by the Eating Disorder Inventory and Eating Attitudes Test. Sexual functioning did not differ among women who did or did not report sexual abuse. This finding suggests that sexual abuse or its correlates may affect severity rather than type of eating disorder.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007179	Incest	Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry.
D010865	Pilot Projects	Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.	Pilot Studies,Pilot Study,Pilot Project,Project, Pilot,Projects, Pilot,Studies, Pilot,Study, Pilot
D011902	Rape	Sexual intercourse without consent of the victim.
D002032	Bulimia	Eating an excess amount of food in a short period of time, as seen in the disorder of BULIMIA NERVOSA. It is caused by an abnormal craving for food, or insatiable hunger also known as "ox hunger".	Binge Eating,Bulimias,Eating, Binge
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002650	Child Abuse, Sexual	Sexual maltreatment of the child or minor.	Child Molestation,Child Molestation, Sexual,Molestation, Sexual, Child,Sexual Abuse of Child,Sexual Abuse, Child,Abuse, Child Sexual,Child Sexual Abuse,Molestation, Child,Sexual Child Abuse,Sexual Child Molestation
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000856	Anorexia Nervosa	An eating disorder that is characterized by the lack or loss of APPETITE, known as ANOREXIA. Other features include excess fear of becoming OVERWEIGHT; BODY IMAGE disturbance; significant WEIGHT LOSS; refusal to maintain minimal normal weight; and AMENORRHEA. This disorder occurs most frequently in adolescent females. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)	Anorexia Nervosas,Nervosa, Anorexia,Nervosas, Anorexia
D012189	Retrospective Studies	Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.	Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective