title: Body checking and eating cognitions in Brazilian outpatients with eating disorders and non psychiatric controls.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Compare inadequate eating behaviors and their relationship to body checking in three groups: patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), patients with bulimia nervosa (BN) and a control group (C).
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty three outpatients with eating disorders (ED) and 40 controls completed eating attitudes and body checking questionnaires.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall relationship between the eating attitude and body checking was statistically significant in all three groups. The worse the eating attitude, the greater the body checking behavior. However, when we look at each group individually, the relationship was only statistically significant in the AN group (r=.354, p=0.020).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The lower the desired weight and the worse the eating attitude, the more people check themselves, although in the presence of an ED the relationship between body checking and food restrictions is greater. In patients displaying the AN subgroup, body checking is also related to continued dietary control.
authors.affiliation: Women Drug Dependent Treatment Center, Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: drikachani@uol.com.br.
authors.forename: Adriana Trejger
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Kachani
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: lbarroso@ime.usp.com.br.
authors.forename: Lucia Pereira
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Barroso
authors.affiliation: Women Drug Dependent Treatment Center, Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: brasili@netway.com.br.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brasiliano
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorders Program, Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: cordas@usp.br.
authors.forename: Táki Athanássios
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Cordás
authors.affiliation: Women Drug Dependent Treatment Center, Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: hochgafp@uol.com.br.
authors.forename: Patrícia Brunfentrinker
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Hochgraf
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D001290:Attitude; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001938:Brazil; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003071:Cognition; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Body checking; Eating attitudes; Eating cognitions; Eating disorders; Outpatients