The impact of ongoing westernization on eating disorders and body image dissatisfaction in a sample of undergraduate Saudi women.

CONCLUSION: Eating disorders are not an exclusively western issue, as the levels in Saudi undergraduate women are similar to those in western cultures (though they tend more towards bulimic than anorexic presentations). Internalization of western values appears to be key to this pattern. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE : Level III, case-control analytic study. PMID: 33011958 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Tags: Eat Weight Disord Source Type: research