title: [Eating disorders among Spanish university students].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This present work assesses the prevalence of anorexia nervosa, its partial syndromes, bulimia nervosa and binge eating in a university sample of Galician students (Spain).
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample is made up of 298 women and 157 men. The scales used were: Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) and a Questionnaire on eating behavior.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Women had higher scores in drive for thinness, bulimia, interoceptive awareness, body dissatisfaction and ineffectiveness than men; furthermore the women had lower scores in BMI. We find a very high prevalence, a total of 6.4% of cases of eating disorders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The high values of probable eating disorders make it especially necessary to carry out primary and secondary prevention programs in university students populations.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación. Campus Ourense. Universidad de Vigo. Pontevedra. Spain. lameiras@uvigo.es
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lameiras Fernández
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Calado Otero
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Castro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernández Prieto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D014495:Universities