School based environment increases the chance of individual risk of eating disorders
Feeding and eating disorder is characterized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Pica, Rumination Disorder, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Unspecified Feeding or Eating Disorder (UFED), and Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OFSED) which includes: Atypical Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder (of low frequency or limited duration), Bulimia Nervosa (of low frequency or limited duration), Purging Disorder, and Night Eating Syndrome. Each of these are caused by multiple variables but what most have in common is the high mortality, long follow up period, and are difficult to treat. Therefore, my goal is to identify the causes of eating disorder (ED) which are school based in order to develop preventive interventions.
Hypothesis: I believe that school based environment such as the proportion of female students in the school, night eating syndrome, and “drunkorexia” can increase the individual risk of eating disorder.
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The reason I chose school based environment and ED is because many research suggests an increase in incidence of eating disorders over the last 30 years. Suggesting also that adolescents have a higher risk of developing eating disorders. I rationalized that the phenomenon could be contributed to the school environment as it plays large part in adolescent lives and have been implicated in health