1. Race, Ethnicity, and Eating Disorder Recognition by Peers.
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Sala, Margarita, Reyes-Rodríguez, Mae Lynn, Bulik, CynthiaM., and Bardone-Cone, Anna
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ANALYSIS of variance , *ASIANS , *BLACK people , *COLLEGE students , *EATING disorders , *HISPANIC Americans , *CASE studies , *MEDICAL referrals , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *RACE , *RESEARCH , *RESEARCH funding , *SELF-evaluation , *SEX distribution , *STATISTICS , *STEREOTYPES , *SURVEYS , *WHITE people , *DATA analysis , *DATA analysis software - Abstract
We investigated racial/ethnic stereotyping in the recognition and referral of eating disorders with 663 university students. We explored responses to problem and eating disorder recognition and health care referrals after subjects read a vignette concerning a patient of a different race/ethnic background presenting with eating disorders. A series of three 4 × 3 ANOVAs revealed significant main effects for eating disorders across all three outcome variables. There were no significant main effects across the four different race/ethnicity conditions and no significant race by condition interactions. Lack of general eating disorder recognition and health care referrals by student participants were found. [Supplemental files are available for this article. Go to the publishers's online edition ofEating Disordersfor the following free supplemental resource: online appendix containing vignettes 1–3, as described in the “Methods” section]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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