Al Shanbari Nasser, Alharthi Abdulrahman, Bakry Salah, Alsalmi Safaa, Saleh Raghad, Kambiji Gufran, Saleh Jomanah, Alsulami Ethar, Shatla Mokhtar
Department of Medicine and Surgery, College of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, SAU.
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, SAU.
Cureus. 2023 Feb 12;15(2):e34888. doi: 10.7759/cureus.34888. eCollection 2023 Feb.
Eating disorders (EDs) are defined as disturbances in health and psychosocial functioning. They are more predominant in young and adult women and can start at an early age and continue into adulthood. These types of mental illnesses can be prevented with proper training. However, there is a significant lack of understanding of EDs among teachers. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate the prevalence rates of EDs among female high school students in Makkah city.
We surveyed 384 female students from high schools in Makkah city in this cross-sectional study using a validated questionnaire adapted from a previously published study after translating it into Arabic.
Most of the students had suffered an ED (n=211, 54.4%), while 45.6% had not. There was an insignificant relation between the frequency of EDs and participants' age, nationality, family history of ED, and awareness of EDs (P-value, 0.158, 0.486, 0.671, and 0.718, respectively).
Further studies are needed to evaluate the understanding of EDs among the general population as well as assess the prevalence rates of EDs among larger female populations.
饮食失调被定义为健康和心理社会功能的紊乱。它们在年轻和成年女性中更为常见，可能在早年开始并持续到成年。这类精神疾病可以通过适当的培训来预防。然而，教师对饮食失调的了解严重不足。因此，本研究旨在估计麦加市女高中生中饮食失调的患病率。
在这项横断面研究中，我们使用一份经过验证的问卷对麦加市高中的384名女学生进行了调查，该问卷是在将之前发表的一项研究翻译成阿拉伯语后改编而成的。
大多数学生曾患有饮食失调（n = 211，54.4%），而45.6%的学生没有。饮食失调的频率与参与者的年龄、国籍、饮食失调家族史以及对饮食失调的认知之间没有显著关系（P值分别为0.158、0.486、0.671和0.718）。
需要进一步研究以评估普通人群对饮食失调的了解，并评估更大女性群体中饮食失调的患病率。
