title: Eating attitudes, body image and risk for eating disorders in a group of Spanish dancers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Prevalence of eating disorders (ED) and discrepancies between actual weight and weight perception seem much higher in dancers. The aims analysed in 77 dancers were: risk for ED; relationship between eating attitudes and psychological variables; dieting and self-weighing, and body image distortion.
  
  
  METHODS
  Weight- and body image-related variables, dieting, self-reported physical fitness, specific ED-related variables and other psychological variables were assessed. The robust Huber's model was applied in order to test the inflluence of the variables analysed on the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) scores. In case of categorical variables, the Chi-square (χ2-test) or the Fisher's exact test were applied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Higher risk of ED was not obtained. Despite the relationship between EAT-40 and BMI, body appreciation and drive for thinness, scores on EAT-40 and BMI do not suggest higher risk in dancers. Dancers had a similar weight perception than other populations and body dissatisfaction seems not to be worse than the reported in other types of participants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite some limitations, our study adds some data in this field of study bearing in mind the use of a cluster of variables previously not taken into account as a whole.
authors.affiliation: Area of Nutrition and Food Sciences. Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Sevilla. ijl@tcasevilla.com.
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jáuregui Lobera
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bolaños-Ríos
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Valero-Blanco
authors.forename: Ángeles
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Ortega-de-la-Torre
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001828:Body Image; D003615:Dancing / Q000523:psychology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012306:Risk; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Dancers. Eating  disorders. Weight  misperception.  Self-weighing. Body  dissatisfaction. Body  image distortion.  Body appreciation.