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Somatotype Components as Useful Predictors of Disordered Eating Attitudes in Young Female Ballet Dance Students

The current study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis to examine the accuracy of somatotype components in correctly classifying disordered eating attitudes (DEA) in female dance students. Participants were a sample of 81 female dancers distributed in two groups: beginner trai...

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Autores principales: Alvero-Cruz, José Ramón, Parent Mathias, Verónica, García-Romero, Jerónimo C.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32605103
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9072024
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author Alvero-Cruz, José Ramón
Parent Mathias, Verónica
García-Romero, Jerónimo C.
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description The current study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis to examine the accuracy of somatotype components in correctly classifying disordered eating attitudes (DEA) in female dance students. Participants were a sample of 81 female dancers distributed in two groups: beginner training (BT; age (mean ± SD) = 10.09 ± 1.2 years, n = 32) and advanced training (AT; age = 15.37 ± 2.1 years, n = 49). For evaluation of DEA, the Eating Attitudes Test- 26 (EAT-26) questionnaire was used. We defined an EAT-26 score ≥20 as positive for DEA. Somatotype components were calculated using the Heath-Carter anthropometric method. The risk of presenting DEA was 28.1% (n = 9) in the BT group and 6.1% (n = 3) in the AT group. In the BT group, mesomorphy demonstrated moderate–high accuracy in predicting DEA (area under the curve (AUC) = 0.82, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.64–0.93). The optimal cut-off of 6.34 yielded a sensitivity of 0.77 and a specificity of 0.95. Ectomorphy showed moderate accuracy in predicting DEA (AUC = 0.768, 95% CI: 0.58–0.89). The optimal cut-off of 2.41 yielded a sensitivity of 0.78 and a specificity of 0.78. In the AT group, none of the components demonstrated accuracy in predicting DEA. Somatotype components were good predictors of disordered eating attitudes in the younger dance student group (beginner training). Further research is needed to identify the determinants of these differences between the two groups.
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spelling pubmed-74092772020-08-25 Somatotype Components as Useful Predictors of Disordered Eating Attitudes in Young Female Ballet Dance Students Alvero-Cruz, José Ramón Parent Mathias, Verónica García-Romero, Jerónimo C. J Clin Med Article The current study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis to examine the accuracy of somatotype components in correctly classifying disordered eating attitudes (DEA) in female dance students. Participants were a sample of 81 female dancers distributed in two groups: beginner training (BT; age (mean ± SD) = 10.09 ± 1.2 years, n = 32) and advanced training (AT; age = 15.37 ± 2.1 years, n = 49). For evaluation of DEA, the Eating Attitudes Test- 26 (EAT-26) questionnaire was used. We defined an EAT-26 score ≥20 as positive for DEA. Somatotype components were calculated using the Heath-Carter anthropometric method. The risk of presenting DEA was 28.1% (n = 9) in the BT group and 6.1% (n = 3) in the AT group. In the BT group, mesomorphy demonstrated moderate–high accuracy in predicting DEA (area under the curve (AUC) = 0.82, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.64–0.93). The optimal cut-off of 6.34 yielded a sensitivity of 0.77 and a specificity of 0.95. Ectomorphy showed moderate accuracy in predicting DEA (AUC = 0.768, 95% CI: 0.58–0.89). The optimal cut-off of 2.41 yielded a sensitivity of 0.78 and a specificity of 0.78. In the AT group, none of the components demonstrated accuracy in predicting DEA. Somatotype components were good predictors of disordered eating attitudes in the younger dance student group (beginner training). Further research is needed to identify the determinants of these differences between the two groups. MDPI 2020-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7409277/ /pubmed/32605103 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9072024 Text en © 2020 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full_unstemmed Somatotype Components as Useful Predictors of Disordered Eating Attitudes in Young Female Ballet Dance Students
title_short Somatotype Components as Useful Predictors of Disordered Eating Attitudes in Young Female Ballet Dance Students
title_sort somatotype components as useful predictors of disordered eating attitudes in young female ballet dance students
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32605103
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9072024
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