TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Being bullied and using drugs are associate with eating disorder symptoms in Brazilian students
JO  - International journal of eating disorders
A1  - Galvão, Patricia Paiva de O.
A1  - Valente, Juliana Y.
A1  - Almeida, Mireille Coêlho
A1  - Gubert, Fabiane A.
A1  - Rebouças, Lidiane
A1  - Mari, Jair
A1  - Caetano, Sheila C.
A1  - Sanchez, Zila M.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVE: This study's main purpose is to evaluate factors associated with eating disorder (ED) symptoms among Brazilian adolescents.     METHOD: The sample consisted of 5,213 students, mean age 13.24 (SD ±0.01), in the eighth grade of 93 public schools from three Brazilian cities. Data were collected through an anonymous self-report questionnaire, assessing: sociodemographics, use of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, binge drinking, bullying, and ED symptoms. We used confirmatory factor analysis and multivariate linear regression.     RESULTS: We found that high levels of bullying victimization, binge drinking and the use of unprescribed weight-loss substances were associated with higher levels of ED symptoms to both genders. However, only among girls, the higher age (β =.10; 95% CI = 0.02; 0.17) and the use of illicit drugs (β =.21; 95% CI = 0.094; 0.34) were associated with increase in the ED symptoms.     DISCUSSION: We demonstrate a significant association of ED symptoms with drug use and bullying, highlighting the importance of addressing these factors in the development of ED prevention strategies.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0276-3478
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eat.23436
ID  - ref1
ER  -