[Eating disorders among Spanish university students].
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.
Lameiras Fernández
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Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación. Campus Ourense. Universidad de Vigo. Pontevedra. Spain. lameiras@uvigo.es
Calado Otero
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Rodríguez Castro
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Fernández Prieto
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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