title: [Association of childhood sexual abuse and disordered eating in a sample of Mexican adolescents].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the association between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and disordered eating (DE).
  
  
  METHODS
  A probabilistic sample of 2,358 female high school students of public schools in the Estado de Mexico was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  DE was more prevalent among CSA sufferers (p < or = 0.05). Preoccupation with gaining weight, binging and restrictive behaviors were associated to CSA (p < or = 0.05). The probability of DE was 7 times higher when the CSA experience had not been revealed and 36 times when CSA happened before 14 years of age.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The association between CSA and DE is clear in the sample studied, as well as with some of its specific characteristics, which highlights the need to deepen in this research field and to incorporate the evaluation of CSA and its consequences in adolescents' mental health.
authors.affiliation: Dirección de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas y Psicosociales, Institute Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, México, DF. unikels@imp.edu.mx
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Unikel-Santoncini
authors.forename: Luciana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ramos-Lira
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Juárez-García
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires