title: Disordered Eating Attitudes Among University Students in Kuwait: The Role of Gender and Obesity.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study aimed to highlight the proportion of disordered eating attitudes among university students in Kuwait by gender and obesity.
  
  
  METHODS
  A sample of 530 Kuwaiti university students was selected from four universities in Kuwait (203 men and 327 women). The eating attitudes test-26 was used to determine disordered eating attitudes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The prevalence of disordered eating attitudes was 31.8% and 33.6% among men and women respectively. Obese students of both genders had doubled the risk of disordered eating attitudes compared to nonobese students (odds ratio 1.99 and 1.98, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  About one third of university students in Kuwait had disordered eating attitudes. There is an urgent need to prevent and treat disordered eating attitudes in university students in Kuwait.
authors.affiliation: Arab Centre for Nutrition, Manama, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Abdulrahman O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Musaiger
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Fawzia I
authors.initials: FI
authors.lastname: Al-Kandari
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, College of Science, University of Bahrain, Sakheer, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Mariam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Al-Mannai
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Alaa M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Al-Faraj
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Fajer A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Bouriki
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Fatima S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Shehab
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Lulwa A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Al-Dabous
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Wassin B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Al-Qalaf
keywords: Arab; eating disorders; obesity; university students