Reiss D
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, London.
Psychol Med. 1996 Mar;26(2):289-99. doi: 10.1017/s0033291700034681.
African-Caribbean (N = 136) and White British (N = 192) female family planning clinic attenders were administered the Bulimic Investigatory Test, Edinburgh (BITE) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). A proportion of the participants were subsequently interviewed. The African-Caribbeans were found to have both significantly more disordered eating attitudes and a significantly higher level of abnormal eating behaviour than the White British. Although the African-Caribbean group had a significantly higher mean Body Mass Index this did not mediate the difference in levels of eating attitudes. When compared with the White British group more African-Caribbean women reported feelings of failure, guilt, abnormality and self-consciousness concerning their eating habits. The results indicate that eating problems may be highly prevalent in this ethnic minority population and suggest that there may be differences in the nature of eating disorder psychopathology between ethnic groups.
对136名非洲 - 加勒比裔和192名英国白人女性计划生育门诊就诊者进行了爱丁堡贪食症调查测试（BITE）和一般健康问卷（GHQ - 28）测试。随后对部分参与者进行了访谈。结果发现，与英国白人相比，非洲 - 加勒比裔女性的饮食态度紊乱情况明显更多，异常饮食行为水平也显著更高。尽管非洲 - 加勒比裔组的平均体重指数明显更高，但这并未调节饮食态度水平的差异。与英国白人组相比，更多非洲 - 加勒比裔女性表示对自己的饮食习惯有失败感、内疚感、异常感和自觉意识。结果表明，饮食问题在这个少数民族群体中可能非常普遍，这表明不同种族之间饮食失调心理病理学的性质可能存在差异。
