title: Frequency of bulimic behaviors and associated social maladjustment in female graduate students.
abstract: A questionnaire survey of 550 female medical, business and law students revealed that 12% met criteria for bulimia. The bulimic students reported significantly more social maladjustment than their non-eating disordered peers. Frequency of binging and purging was associated with the degree of social impairment, with significant social dysfunction being noted on the overall scale at a minimum binging/purging frequency of once weekly. This finding suggests that the proposed DSM-III frequency criterion may be too restrictive.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002032:Bulimia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D004500:Education, Graduate; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology