Loss of control over eating is associated with eating disorder psychopathology in a community sample of Latinas
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Participants
Participants were 77 monolingual (Spanish-speaking-only) women of Hispanic origin (diverse backgrounds of Spanish-speaking countries) who responded to advertisements. Mean age was 41.5 years (SD = 13.6) and mean BMI was 29.1 (SD = 5.9).
Procedures and measures
Flyers written in Spanish were posted in an urban setting. The flyers invited Latinas at least 18 years of age to participate in a study of eating and health and offered $50 compensation. IRB approval was obtained and participants provided written informed consent in
Results
Sixteen (21%) of the 77 participants reported regular LOC episodes on the S-EDE. Four participants reported regular OBEs but not regular SBEs, ten reported regular SBEs but not regular OBEs, and two reported regular SBEs and OBEs. Independent t-tests were used to compare individuals who reported regular (i.e., frequency of at least weekly (White, Masheb, Rothschild, Burke-Martindale, & Grilo, 2006)) LOC episodes (OBEs and/or SBEs) and those who did not. As shown in Table 1, the two groups did
Discussion
Roughly 21% of a community sample of Latinas reported experiencing loss of control over eating at least once weekly. Although no differences existed in current BMI between Latinas who reported versus denied LOC, those who reported LOC had significantly more frequent weight cycling and higher scores on all S-EDE subscales. The findings for Latinas extend those recently reported for various community and clinical groups (Keel et al., 2005, Latner et al., 2007) suggesting that regular loss of
Acknowledgements
This research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants: DK66555S (Elder) and DK49587, DK49587S, K24 DK070052 awarded to Grilo, and by the Donaghue Research Foundation (Grilo).
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