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Eating Disorder Behaviors Are Increasing: Findings from Two Sequential Community Surveys in South Australia | PLOS One

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Affiliation School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Affiliation School Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Affiliation Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Evidence for an increase in the prevalence of eating disorders is inconsistent. Our aim was to determine change in the population point prevalence of eating disorder behaviors over a 10-year period. Eating disorder behaviors were assessed in consecutive general population surveys of men and women conducted in 1995 (n = 3001, 72% respondents) and 2005 (n = 3047, 63.1% respondents). Participants were randomly sampled from households in rural and metropolitan South Australia. There was a significant (all p<0.01) and over two-fold increase in the prevalence of binge eating, purging (self-induced vomiting and/or laxative or diuretic mis

Eating Disorder Behaviors Are Increasing: Findings from Two Sequential Community Surveys in South Australia | PLOS One Browse Subject Areas ? Click through the PLOS taxonomy to find articles in your field. For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here . Article Authors Metrics Comments Media Coverage Reader Comments Figures Figures Abstract Background Evidence for an increase in the prevalence of eating disorders is inconsistent. Our aim was to determine change in the population point prevalence of eating disorder behaviors over a 10-year period. Methodology/Principal Findings Eati

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