Disordered eating behaviors and binge drinking in female high-school students: the role of impulsivity
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: "It is widely accepted that psychiatric comorbidity can increase the severity,chronicity, and treatment resistance of psychiatric disorders. In variousstudies worldwide, it has been estimated that the prevalence of alcoholuse disorders in women with disordered eating behaviors (DEB) issituated at between 2.9 and 48.6%. It is worth noting that previous studieshave not considered the analysis of the variables that could explainthe comorbidity between DEB and alcohol use in adolescents, such asimpulsivity, which is the key variable for explaining this comorbidity.On the other hand, most studies have addressed the adult population inpsychiatric hospitals or people with eating disorders (ED) or alcohol usedisorders. It is considered that those subjects have already developedpsychiatric comorbid disorders. Impulsivity could be an unspecific traitthat aggravates the psychiatric condition of a determined person and itis therefore more likely for that person to seek specialized care. Accordingto the above, the role of impulsivity in the comorbidity of ED andalcohol use might not be similar to that of the general population, mostlyamong those who have not yet developed a whole clinical syndrome.Therefore, we consider that it is important to clarify the involvementof impulsivity in the comorbidity between disordered eating behaviors(DEB) and binge drinking (BD) in high school students. It is also crucialto analyze the association between impulsivity and the coexistence ofDEB and binge drinking (BD) in female students aged between 15 and19 years at public high schools in the State of Mexico."
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2117312620