Transtorno de compulsão alimentar periodica (TCAP) e ansiedade em adolescentes obesos

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2005

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This work had as objective to verify the presence of Binge Eating Disorder (BED) in obese adolescents and if it has some correlation with anxiety. For this accomplishment a cross-sectional study and a quantitative method was used. The research instruments used were: identification interview of BED, according to DSM-IV criteria; Body Mass Index (BMI); Binge Eating Scale (BES); and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Seventy three obese and overweight adolescents were researched, with age between 11 and 18 years old, respecting their natural order of searching to the Program of Preventive Medicine of UNIMED - Baixa Mogiana. The instruments allowed were used to evaluate the following variables: age, sex, BMI, BED and State-Trait Anxiety. The subjects were divided in 2 groups: with BED and without BED (group-control), and compared the other variables between the two groups. The data of the research also allowed to evaluate the education of the subjects: varying from the class V of secondary school and 3o. degree of high school. Over the results a statistical analysis with nonparametric tests were used, utilizing a level of significance of 5%, with p-value = 0,05. The results evidencied that the indexes of BMI and of anxiety-trait were significantly higher in the group with BED that in the group without BED, indicating that the adolescents with BED presented a larger tendency for anxiety and obesity that the subjects that didn´t present BED. These results of this work are likeness the results of previous studies. And in spite of the limitations of the research, they can be indicative of considerable risk factor for the obesity and other disorders in the adolescence. They can also contribute to a better knowledgement of BED, this recent diagnostic category, and of their relationship with the anxiety in the obese adolescents

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transtornos da alimentação obesidade ansiedade comportamento do adolescente

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