Disordered Eating Attitudes Among University Students in Kuwait: The Role of Gender and Obesity

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to highlight the proportion of disordered eating attitudes among university students in Kuwait by gender and obesity. METHODS: A sample of 530 Kuwaiti university students was selected from four universities in Kuwait (203 men and 327 women). The eating attitudes test-26...

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Autores principales: Musaiger, Abdulrahman O., Al-Kandari, Fawzia I., Al-Mannai, Mariam, Al-Faraj, Alaa M., Bouriki, Fajer A., Shehab, Fatima S., Al-Dabous, Lulwa A., Al-Qalaf, Wassin B.
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27141286
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2008-7802.180413
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author Musaiger, Abdulrahman O.
Al-Kandari, Fawzia I.
Al-Mannai, Mariam
Al-Faraj, Alaa M.
Bouriki, Fajer A.
Shehab, Fatima S.
Al-Dabous, Lulwa A.
Al-Qalaf, Wassin B.
author_facet Musaiger, Abdulrahman O.
Al-Kandari, Fawzia I.
Al-Mannai, Mariam
Al-Faraj, Alaa M.
Bouriki, Fajer A.
Shehab, Fatima S.
Al-Dabous, Lulwa A.
Al-Qalaf, Wassin B.
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description BACKGROUND: This study aimed to highlight the proportion of disordered eating attitudes among university students in Kuwait by gender and obesity. METHODS: A sample of 530 Kuwaiti university students was selected from four universities in Kuwait (203 men and 327 women). The eating attitudes test-26 was used to determine disordered eating attitudes. RESULTS: The prevalence of disordered eating attitudes was 31.8% and 33.6% among men and women respectively. Obese students of both genders had doubled the risk of disordered eating attitudes compared to nonobese students (odds ratio 1.99 and 1.98, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: About one third of university students in Kuwait had disordered eating attitudes. There is an urgent need to prevent and treat disordered eating attitudes in university students in Kuwait.
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spelling pubmed-48377922016-05-02 Disordered Eating Attitudes Among University Students in Kuwait: The Role of Gender and Obesity Musaiger, Abdulrahman O. Al-Kandari, Fawzia I. Al-Mannai, Mariam Al-Faraj, Alaa M. Bouriki, Fajer A. Shehab, Fatima S. Al-Dabous, Lulwa A. Al-Qalaf, Wassin B. Int J Prev Med Brief Communication BACKGROUND: This study aimed to highlight the proportion of disordered eating attitudes among university students in Kuwait by gender and obesity. METHODS: A sample of 530 Kuwaiti university students was selected from four universities in Kuwait (203 men and 327 women). The eating attitudes test-26 was used to determine disordered eating attitudes. RESULTS: The prevalence of disordered eating attitudes was 31.8% and 33.6% among men and women respectively. Obese students of both genders had doubled the risk of disordered eating attitudes compared to nonobese students (odds ratio 1.99 and 1.98, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: About one third of university students in Kuwait had disordered eating attitudes. There is an urgent need to prevent and treat disordered eating attitudes in university students in Kuwait. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4837792/ /pubmed/27141286 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2008-7802.180413 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Preventive Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Musaiger, Abdulrahman O.
Al-Kandari, Fawzia I.
Al-Mannai, Mariam
Al-Faraj, Alaa M.
Bouriki, Fajer A.
Shehab, Fatima S.
Al-Dabous, Lulwa A.
Al-Qalaf, Wassin B.
Disordered Eating Attitudes Among University Students in Kuwait: The Role of Gender and Obesity
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title_fullStr Disordered Eating Attitudes Among University Students in Kuwait: The Role of Gender and Obesity
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title_sort disordered eating attitudes among university students in kuwait: the role of gender and obesity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27141286
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2008-7802.180413
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