[Eating disorders inventory scores among mothers of adolescents with and without eating disorders].
BACKGROUND
Parents have a control role in the development and treatment of eating disorders among teenagers.


OBJECTIVE
To compare attitudes, beliefs and behaviors between mothers of patients with eating disorders and mothers of teenagers without these disorders.


METHODS
Twenty one mother-sibling pairs of adolescents with eating disorders and 15 pairs of adolescents without this condition, but of similar age, were studied. The eating disorders inventory (EDI-2), a self administered questionnaire that includes 91 items, was applied.


RESULTS
No differences in any of the subscales of EDI-2 were observed between mothers of teenagers with or without eating disorders. No differences in perfectionism, maturity fears, impulsivity and interpersonal distrust were observed between adolescents with and without eating disorders. The latter had a lesser drive for thinness and inefficacy.


CONCLUSIONS
In this sample, no differences in behaviors, attitudes and beliefs about food, were observed between mothers of adolescents with and without eating disorders.
Cordella
Patricia
P
Unidad de Trastornos de Alimentación, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. mpcordella@gmail.com
Castro
Loreto
L
Díaz
Carola
C
Zavala
Cynthia
C
Lizana
Paula
P
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003469:Culture; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D055815:Young Adult