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Eat Weight Disord
; 8(3): 225-30, 2003 Sep.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-14649787
RESUMO
The aim of this study was to compare some of the characteristics of 50 mothers of patients with an eating disorder (ED) with those of a control group of 30 mothers of non-consulting adolescents. In comparison with the control group, the patients' mothers had higher scores for the bulimic factor of the Eating Attitudes Test-26, more frequent binge eating episodes, more eating disorder symptoms, more depression episodes, a higher incidence of bottle-fed daughters, provoked abortions and poor mother-daughter relationships with their own mothers. We recommend one-to-one diagnostic interviews with patients' mothers at the beginning of consultations.