title: Comparison of eating attitudes between adolescent girls with and without Asperger syndrome: daughters' and mothers' reports.
abstract: Despite the evidence that individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS) have a propensity for being underweight or having comorbid eating disorders, no previous research has compared the eating attitudes of adolescent girls with AS to typically developing peers. This study compared reports of eating problems provided by the adolescent girls themselves (56 with and 56 without AS) and their mothers on the EAT-26. Results indicated that adolescent girls with AS are at a higher risk for eating problems than their typically developing peers according to their reports and the reports of their mothers. Moreover, it was found that although the agreement between mothers' and daughter's reports is very satisfactory, mothers of girls with AS report statistically less eating-disordered behaviors than their daughters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, City Liberal Studies, Affiliated Institution of the University of Sheffield, 24 Proxenou Koromila Street, 546 22, Thessaloniki, Greece. kalyva@city.academic.gr
authors.forename: Efrosini
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kalyva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D020817:Asperger Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
references.citation: J Autism Dev Disord. 2001 Oct;31(5):505-11
references.pmid: 11794415
references.citation: Psychol Bull. 2007 Nov;133(6):976-1006
references.pmid: 17967091
references.citation: Compr Psychiatry. 1996 Jan-Feb;37(1):23-30
references.pmid: 8770522
references.citation: Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1997 Jul;96(1):64-7
references.pmid: 9259226
references.citation: Psychiatry Res. 1996 Apr 16;62(1):3-9
references.pmid: 8739109
references.citation: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1999 Dec;8(4):312-4
references.pmid: 10654125
references.citation: Int J Eat Disord. 1999 Nov;26(3):301-14
references.pmid: 10441246
references.citation: J Autism Child Schizophr. 1978 Jun;8(2):162-9
references.pmid: 670130
references.citation: Int J Eat Disord. 2004 Sep;36(2):183-94
references.pmid: 15282688
references.citation: Ethn Health. 2004 Aug;9(3):253-66
references.pmid: 15369999
references.citation: Paediatr Drugs. 2001;3(2):91-9
references.pmid: 11269642
references.citation: Compr Psychiatry. 1995 Jan-Feb;36(1):61-9
references.pmid: 7705090
references.citation: Int J Eat Disord. 2005;37 Suppl:S95-7
references.pmid: 15852330
references.citation: Res Dev Disabil. 2006 Jul-Aug;27(4):353-63
references.pmid: 16043324
references.citation: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1992 Sep;31(5):819-29
references.pmid: 1400112
references.citation: J Pediatr Psychol. 1999 Jun;24(3):193-214; discussion 215-6
references.pmid: 10379133
references.citation: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2003 Jan;42(1):76-84
references.pmid: 12500079
references.citation: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 Jun;17(4):209-16
references.pmid: 17876499
references.citation: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1999 Nov;38(11):1389-95
references.pmid: 10560225
references.citation: J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Feb;38(2):342-52
references.pmid: 17578658
references.citation: JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 1993 May-Jun;17(3):284-6
references.pmid: 8505836
references.citation: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2007 Dec;16(8):495-504
references.pmid: 17876510
references.citation: Psychol Med. 1982 Nov;12(4):871-8
references.pmid: 6961471
references.citation: Body Image. 2007 Jun;4(2):179-90
references.pmid: 18089263
references.citation: J Autism Dev Disord. 2004 Aug;34(4):433-8
references.pmid: 15449518
references.citation: J Autism Dev Disord. 1989 Jun;19(2):185-212
references.pmid: 2745388
references.citation: Int J Eat Disord. 2002 Apr;31(3):349-51
references.pmid: 11920999
references.citation: Am J Clin Nutr. 2002 Jun;75(6):978-85
references.pmid: 12036802
references.citation: J Autism Dev Disord. 1994 Oct;24(5):659-85
references.pmid: 7814313
references.citation: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1994 Feb;35(2):215-29
references.pmid: 8188796
references.citation: Pediatr Nurs. 2000 May-Jun;26(3):259-64
references.pmid: 12026389
references.citation: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1996 Jul;35(7):937-40
references.pmid: 8768355
references.citation: Br J Med Psychol. 2001 Dec;74(Pt 4):497-505
references.pmid: 11780797