Pavlova Barbara, Uher Rudolf, Papezova Hana
1st Medical School, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2008 May;16(3):207-14. doi: 10.1002/erv.819.
Eating disorders can be triggered by life events involving migration and acculturation.
To explore associations between sojourns abroad and the onset and course of eating disorders.
Six semi-structured interviews with women with an eating disorder and history of sojourn abroad and seven first-person Internet testimonies were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
We identified three trajectories relating eating disorders to sojourns abroad: (I) weight-gain when abroad associated with later development of an eating disorder; (II) development or worsening of an eating disorder when abroad; (III) stay abroad as an attempt to escape the illness. Three topics informed on the impact of sojourns abroad on mental health: (A) different food and eating habits; (B) negative emotions; (C) illness as attempt to achieve something valuable.
The importance of the identified trajectories and topics relating eating disorders to sojourns abroad needs to be estimated in an epidemiological study.
饮食失调可能由涉及移民和文化适应的生活事件引发。
探讨在国外旅居与饮食失调的发病及病程之间的关联。
对六名患有饮食失调症且有国外旅居史的女性进行了半结构化访谈,并对七份第一人称的网络证词进行了解释现象学分析(IPA)。
我们确定了饮食失调与国外旅居相关的三条轨迹:(I)在国外体重增加,随后出现饮食失调;(II)在国外饮食失调病情发展或加重;(III)出国旅居是为了逃避疾病。有三个主题说明了国外旅居对心理健康的影响:(A)不同的食物和饮食习惯;(B)负面情绪;(C)患病是为了获得有价值的东西。
需要在一项流行病学研究中评估所确定的饮食失调与国外旅居相关的轨迹和主题的重要性。