Prevalence and correlates of weight-control behaviors among Caribbean adolescent students.
Adolescent students from nine English-speaking Caribbean countries completed a survey that assessed weight-control behaviors. Weight-control behaviors were prevalent and similar across gender. Extreme weight-control behaviors were related to several psychosocial factors and compromising health behaviors. Future interventions should target adolescents who are using weight-controlling behaviors to prevent future eating disturbances and psychosocial and health morbidities.
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA.
Maureen T
MT
McGuire
Mary
M
Story
Dianne
D
Neumark-Sztainer
Linda
L
Halcon
Sheila
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Campbell-Forrester
Robert Wm
RW
Blum
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001828:Body Image; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D015995:Prevalence; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D015431:Weight Loss; D014900:West Indies / Q000453:epidemiology