Impact Of Eating Disorder On Nutritional Status And Dietary Pattern- A Cross-Sectional Study On Adolescent Girls Of North 24 Parganas District Of West Bengal
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Introduction: Adolescent girls are very much concern about body image, follow disordered eating habits. In 21st century one of the public health problems is eating disorder (ED), characterized by obsession with body image, food habit. Food restriction, selective eating, meal skipping (MS), excessive exercise, laxative misuse are some common behaviors of adolescent girls even of developing countries to make perfect physical posture. Objective of the study is to find out prevalence of ED and MS among adolescent girls of North 24 Parganas district and to determine their association and significance on Body mass index (BMI).
Method: 385 healthy adolescent girls were selected randomly from different schools and colleges of the district according to convenience. ED was detected using Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q). MS habit, frequency in a week and timing were asked individually. Statistical tests were performed in SPSS (IBM, version 16) for analysis of data.
Result: 11.95% and 15.84% participants respectively had ED and MS tendency. Statistically significant difference in BMI was found between ED and control (p<0.01) and MS and non-MS (p<0.05) groups. There was significant association (p<0.01) between ED & MS. Weight concern had significant positive correlation with BMI (p<0.01).
Conclusion: BMI was higher among ED and MS participants than others. Excessive weight concern and inappropriate practices to lose weight adversely affect weight and food habit and make psychologically distressed. Meal skipping may cause nutritional deficiencies during the crucial growing period of adolescence age.
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