Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7160, USA.
Int J Eat Disord. 2011 Apr;44(3):225-32. doi: 10.1002/eat.20804.
We investigated the sociodemographic characteristics in women with and without lifetime eating disorders.
Participants were from a multisite international study of eating disorders (N = 2,096). Education level, relationship status, and reproductive status were examined across eating disorder subtypes and compared with a healthy control group.
Overall, women with eating disorders were less educated than controls, and duration of illness and age of onset were associated with educational attainment. Menstrual status was associated with both relationship and reproductive status, but eating disorder subtypes did not differ significantly from each other or from healthy controls on these dimensions.
Differences in educational attainment, relationships, and reproduction do exist in individuals with eating disorders and are differentially associated with various eating disorder symptoms and characteristics. These data could assist in educating patients and family members about long-term consequences of eating disorders.
我们研究了有和没有终身饮食障碍的女性的社会人口学特征。
参与者来自饮食障碍的多地点国际研究（N=2096）。跨饮食障碍亚型检查了教育水平、关系状况和生殖状况，并与健康对照组进行了比较。
总体而言，患有饮食障碍的女性受教育程度低于对照组，疾病持续时间和发病年龄与教育程度相关。月经状况与关系和生殖状况都有关，但饮食障碍亚型在这些方面与健康对照组没有显著差异。
饮食障碍患者确实存在教育程度、人际关系和生殖方面的差异，并且与各种饮食障碍症状和特征存在差异相关。这些数据可以帮助教育患者及其家属有关饮食障碍的长期后果。
