Title:
Eating disorders and prevention: the family practitioner's role in screening children and pre-adolescents for risk characteristics
Author:
Alicia Clarke Di Fabio
Thesis Advisor:
Jenny Lowry
Committee Member:
Matthew Kirkhart
Committee Member:
Steven Sobelman
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2006
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
Eating disorders are a major public health concern for adolescents due to the great physiological and psychological damage that accompanies these disorders. Family practice physicians are uniquely positioned to screen for eating disorders and their risk factors due to their on-going contact with patients across their development. However, the actual screening practices of family practice physicians have been largely unknown. Results of this study suggested that most physicians surveyed were screening, though not routinely. Their risk factor knowledge was adequate; however, physicians did not identify several of the most important risk factors. Implications of these findings are discussed and recommendations made in terms of screening methods and practices, physician-psychologist collaboration, physician training, continuing education, and improving prevention programming.
Subject:
Eating disorders in children--Risk factors
Subject:
Eating disorders in adolescence--Risk factors
Subject:
Medical screening
Degree:
Doctor of Psychology
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
DiFabioAC-06
