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  • Title: Abnormal eating attitudes among a group of Nigerian youths: II. Anorexic behaviour.
    Author: Oyewumi LK, Kazarian SS.
    Journal: East Afr Med J; 1992 Dec; 69(12):667-9. PubMed ID: 1298630.
    Abstract:
    A survey of a total of 644 female Nigerian high-school, college and university undergraduate students was conducted to examine abnormal eating attitudes associated with anorexic behaviour. Using a cut-off score of 20 on the Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26), overall prevalence of disordered eating attitudes was found to be 14.1%. Prevalence figures for the high-school, university, and college samples were 18.6%, 9.1% and 21.7% respectively. These findings are comparable to those from western countries and suggests that nowadays abnormal eating attitudes associated with anorexia behaviour may be a universal phenomenon that transcends cultural boundaries, contrary to the earlier notion that they were restricted to western countries.
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