title: Nutritional knowledge, eating attitudes and chronic dietary restraint among men with eating disorders.
abstract: We compared nutritional knowledge, eating attitudes and chronic dietary restraint scores among 17 men (10 with bulimia nervosa and 7 with anorexia nervosa) and 50 women (20 with bulimia nervosa and 30 with anorexia nervosa), who were consecutive patients at a major treatment center in Brazil. There were no differences in nutritional knowledge and concern with food between men and women. For both genders, chronic dietary restraint scores were higher among bulimics. Men with eating disorders had better eating attitudes scores than women. Anorexic men tended to have worse eating attitudes scores than bulimic men, while the opposite was observed for women, suggesting an interaction between gender and diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Federal University of São Paulo, Department of Health Sciences, Santos/SP, Brazil. fernanda.scagliusi@gmail.com
authors.forename: Fernanda Baeza
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Scagliusi
authors.forename: Katia Akemi
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Rosana Maria
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: Marcela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kotait
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fabbri
authors.forename: Priscila
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Táki Athanássios
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Cordás
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology; D004032:Diet; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D012737:Sex Factors