title: Dieting among preadolescent and young adolescent females.
abstract: We examined the prevalence of dieting and negative eating attitudes among 2279 females (aged 10-14 years) in southern Ontario. Self-report questionnaires revealed that 29.3% of the girls were currently trying to lose weight and 10.5% had scores greater than the clinical threshold for disordered eating (Children's version of the Eating Attitudes Test [ChEAT] score > or = 20). Those with elevated ChEAT scores were more likely than those with lower scores to be engaged in dieting and other extreme weight control methods.
authors.affiliation: Community Health Systems Resource Group, Ontario Community Outreach Program for Eating Disorders and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto Health Network/Toronto General Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children. gail.mcvey@sickkids.ca
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: McVey
authors.forename: Stacey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tweed
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Blackmore
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D001828:Body Image; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D012928:Social Desirability; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D015431:Weight Loss