title: Abnormal eating attitudes among a group of Nigerian youths: I. Bulimic behaviour.
abstract: The prevalence of bulimic behaviour, a form of abnormal attitude to eating, was investigated among three different samples of Nigerian youths. Using the Binge-Eating questionnaire, a total of 649 females comprising high-school (n = 196), university undergraduate (n = 333) and college of education (n = 120) students were surveyed. A significant proportion of the total student population engaged in bulimic behaviours of bingle-eating (21.16%) and vomiting (22.20%). The various weight control methods they used include diet pills (4.70%), diuretics (6.60%), laxatives (19.50%) and vomiting (26.20%). These findings suggested that bulimic behaviour may be as much a non-western phenomenon as it is a western phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Evaluation Unit, London Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Oyewumi
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kazarian
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D001067:Appetite Depressants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002032:Bulimia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D002400:Cathartics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012574:Schools; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D014839:Vomiting / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D001067:Appetite Depressants; D002400:Cathartics