1. Regional Government’s Ministry of Health. Valencia (Spain)
ANOMALOUS EATING ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS IN THE NATIVE AND IMMIGRANT SCHOOL POPULATION IN THE VALENCIAN REGION (SPAIN)
Luis Rojo, M.D.
Alfonso Bataller, M.D
Edgar A. Tena, Ph. D.
Regional Government’s Ministry of Health. Valencia (Spain)

2. Statement
Cultural values influence changes in eating attitudes and behaviours
Occidental cultural values contribute to the onset of eating disorders
Gowen & Hayward 1995; Keski-Rahkonen 2005

3. Objective
Analysis of Eating Disorder risk in inmigrants versus spanish adolescents boys and girls

4. Assessment
Questionnaire assessing gender, dieting behaviours and ethnic procedence (nationality)
Children Eating Attitude Questionnaire (ChEAT).
Eating disorders screening questionnaire
Spanish validated version
Cut-off point: 20

5. Population Assessed N = 43.034, 13-17 years old adolescents
Girls: 49.5%
Boys: 50.5%
Nationality Groups
Native spanish
Hispanics
Arabs
Asians
Eastern Europeans
Elsewhere

7. Dieting - Girls
# Statistically significant increase (p< 0.001) versus spanish girls

9. Dieting - Boys
Non statistically differences between spanish boys any other group

10. Anomalous Eating Attitudes and Behaviours
# Statistically significant increase (p< 0.05) versus spanish girls

11. Anomalous Eating Attitudes and Behaviours
# Statistically significant increase (p< 0.001) versus spanish boys

12. Anomalous Eating Attitudes and Behaviours

13. Conclusions:1
Restrictive eating behaviour increased among adolescent inmigrant girls

14. Conclusions: 2
Anomalous eating attitudes and behaviours among adolescent inmigrant girls.
We find a significant increase of anomalous eating attitudes and behaviours among hispanic adolescent girls

15. Conclusions: 3
Arab adolescent boys show a statistically significant increase in anomalous, no restrictive, eating.

16. Conclusions: 4
We must to continue assessment of eating behaviours in adolescent population.
Inmigrant adolescent population, both girls and boys, is in higher risk to show eating and nutritional pathology.
Inmigrant boys, specially from arabs countries, could be in a higher risk of obesity. This hypothesis must be assessed in the future