Banna Md Hasan Al, Kundu Satyajit, Arafat S M Yasir
Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science Patuakhali Science and Technology University Patuakhali Bangladesh.
Public Health, School of Medicine and Dentistry Griffith University Gold Coast Australia.
Health Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 6;8(3):e70537. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.70537. eCollection 2025 Mar.
Eating disorders are complex psychiatric illnesses mostly prominent in Western countries. Little has been researched about these disorders in countries like Bangladesh. The purpose of this narrative review was to summarize the studies on eating disorders in Bangladesh, focusing on rates and associated factors.
A search was performed in PubMed, Scopus, Google, Google Scholar, and BanglaJOL on February 20, 2024, to identify the available studies on eating disorders in Bangladesh. After considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 10 articles were included in this review.
Studies were published between 2015 and 2023 with a sample size ranging from 196 to 4076. All the studies were conducted among university students and used screening tools to assess eating disorders where the majority of the studies utilized the . The rate of at risk of eating disorders varies between 20.4% and 38%. Sociocultural factors, age, sex, academic attainment, marital status, family income, smoking, nutritional status, anxiety, depression, internet addiction, high religious practice, previous cosmetic surgery, and binge drinking were associated with eating disorder risk. However, all studies focused on a single population group, and no nationwide studies or research involving community populations or clinical samples were identified.
Although there has been an increase in research on eating disorders in Bangladesh since 2015, community-based studies using diagnostic tools are warranted. Adaptation and development of culture sensitive instruments could be an important necessity along with an enduring collaboration among researchers, stakeholders, and clinicians.
饮食失调是复杂的精神疾病，在西方国家最为突出。在孟加拉国等国家，对这些疾病的研究较少。本叙述性综述的目的是总结孟加拉国饮食失调的研究，重点关注发病率及相关因素。
于2024年2月20日在PubMed、Scopus、谷歌、谷歌学术和BanglaJOL上进行检索，以确定孟加拉国饮食失调的现有研究。在考虑纳入和排除标准后，本综述纳入了10篇文章。
研究发表于2015年至2023年之间，样本量从196到4076不等。所有研究均在大学生中进行，并使用筛查工具评估饮食失调情况，其中大多数研究采用了[具体工具未提及]。饮食失调风险率在20.4%至38%之间。社会文化因素、年龄、性别、学业成就、婚姻状况、家庭收入、吸烟、营养状况、焦虑、抑郁、网络成瘾、高度宗教活动、既往整容手术和暴饮与饮食失调风险相关。然而，所有研究都集中在单一人群组，未发现全国性研究或涉及社区人群或临床样本的研究。
尽管自2015年以来孟加拉国对饮食失调的研究有所增加，但仍需要使用诊断工具进行基于社区的研究。除了研究人员、利益相关者和临床医生之间的持久合作外，开发对文化敏感的工具可能是一项重要需求。
