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Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Their Association with Social Media Addiction among Youths
Eating disorders and excessive attachment to social media are a matter of great concern among youths. This study assessed the prevalence of eating disorders and their association with social media addiction among youths. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 350 participants aged 14–2...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10647586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37960340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15214687 |
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author | Mushtaq, Tehreem Ashraf, Seemab Hameed, Huma Irfan, Ali Shahid, Maria Kanwal, Rabbia Aslam, Muhammad Arslan Shahid, Hijab Koh-E-Noor Shazly, Gamal A. Khan, Mahtab Ahmad Jardan, Yousef A. Bin |
author_facet | Mushtaq, Tehreem Ashraf, Seemab Hameed, Huma Irfan, Ali Shahid, Maria Kanwal, Rabbia Aslam, Muhammad Arslan Shahid, Hijab Koh-E-Noor Shazly, Gamal A. Khan, Mahtab Ahmad Jardan, Yousef A. Bin |
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description | Eating disorders and excessive attachment to social media are a matter of great concern among youths. This study assessed the prevalence of eating disorders and their association with social media addiction among youths. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 350 participants aged 14–25 years. Two pre-validated tools were used, i.e., the Eating Attitude Test and the Social Networking Addiction Scale. SPSS was used to analyze the data. Out of the 350 students, 42% had probable eating disorders, and 41.7% had social media addictions. The findings revealed that the chances of having eating disorders were significantly higher among youths who lived in separate places, smoked, and had a family history of eating disorders (p ≤ 0.05). Furthermore, the dieting domain displayed notably higher scores for youths living separately (p ≤ 0.05) and smokers (p ≤ 0.01). Moreover, the scores for bulimia and food preoccupation were significantly higher among participants who were married (p = 0.038), were smokers (p = 0.027), and had a family history of eating disorders (p = 0.001). Higher scores in the oral control domain were reported by females (p ≤ 0.05) and severely obese youths (p ≤ 0.01). Moreover, social media addiction was significantly higher among students aged 18–21 (p ≤ 0.01). Spearman’s correlation revealed that social media addiction has a weak positive relationship with eating disorders (r = 0.133, p ≤ 0.01), particularly bulimia and food preoccupation (r = 0.173, p ≤ 0.001). This reflects the need to address the harmful consequences of social media addiction that might raise the likelihood of developing eating disorders, particularly bulimia nervosa. |
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spelling | pubmed-106475862023-11-05 Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Their Association with Social Media Addiction among Youths Mushtaq, Tehreem Ashraf, Seemab Hameed, Huma Irfan, Ali Shahid, Maria Kanwal, Rabbia Aslam, Muhammad Arslan Shahid, Hijab Koh-E-Noor Shazly, Gamal A. Khan, Mahtab Ahmad Jardan, Yousef A. Bin Nutrients Article Eating disorders and excessive attachment to social media are a matter of great concern among youths. This study assessed the prevalence of eating disorders and their association with social media addiction among youths. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 350 participants aged 14–25 years. Two pre-validated tools were used, i.e., the Eating Attitude Test and the Social Networking Addiction Scale. SPSS was used to analyze the data. Out of the 350 students, 42% had probable eating disorders, and 41.7% had social media addictions. The findings revealed that the chances of having eating disorders were significantly higher among youths who lived in separate places, smoked, and had a family history of eating disorders (p ≤ 0.05). Furthermore, the dieting domain displayed notably higher scores for youths living separately (p ≤ 0.05) and smokers (p ≤ 0.01). Moreover, the scores for bulimia and food preoccupation were significantly higher among participants who were married (p = 0.038), were smokers (p = 0.027), and had a family history of eating disorders (p = 0.001). Higher scores in the oral control domain were reported by females (p ≤ 0.05) and severely obese youths (p ≤ 0.01). Moreover, social media addiction was significantly higher among students aged 18–21 (p ≤ 0.01). Spearman’s correlation revealed that social media addiction has a weak positive relationship with eating disorders (r = 0.133, p ≤ 0.01), particularly bulimia and food preoccupation (r = 0.173, p ≤ 0.001). This reflects the need to address the harmful consequences of social media addiction that might raise the likelihood of developing eating disorders, particularly bulimia nervosa. MDPI 2023-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10647586/ /pubmed/37960340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15214687 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mushtaq, Tehreem Ashraf, Seemab Hameed, Huma Irfan, Ali Shahid, Maria Kanwal, Rabbia Aslam, Muhammad Arslan Shahid, Hijab Koh-E-Noor Shazly, Gamal A. Khan, Mahtab Ahmad Jardan, Yousef A. Bin Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Their Association with Social Media Addiction among Youths |
title | Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Their Association with Social Media Addiction among Youths |
title_full | Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Their Association with Social Media Addiction among Youths |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Their Association with Social Media Addiction among Youths |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Their Association with Social Media Addiction among Youths |
title_short | Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Their Association with Social Media Addiction among Youths |
title_sort | prevalence of eating disorders and their association with social media addiction among youths |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10647586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37960340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15214687 |
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