PMID- 9503239
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19980430
LR  - 20191024
IS  - 0276-3478 (Print)
IS  - 0276-3478 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 2
DP  - 1998 Mar
TI  - Family characteristics of binge-eating disorder patients.
PG  - 145-51
AB  - Binge-eating disorder (BED) has been described and proposed as a new eating 
      disorder diagnosis. Although studies have examined the characteristics of the 
      family members of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN), 
      little is known about the characteristics of family members of BED patients. The 
      Family Environment Scale (FES) was administered to 88 patients with a DSM-III-R 
      diagnosis of an eating disorder (23 AN, 45 BN, 20 BN + AN), as well as 43 
      patients with BED as defined by DSM-IV criteria. Statistically significant 
      differences were found among the groups on the cohesion, expressiveness, and 
      active-recreational subscales of the FES by analysis of variance (ANOVA). On the 
      cohesion subscale, significant differences were noted between AN and BED, p < 
      .019, with AN scoring higher than BED. On the expressiveness subscale, 
      significant differences were noted for BED and BN, p < .016, with BN scoring 
      higher than BED. On the active-recreational subscale, there were significant 
      differences for BED versus BN, BED versus AN, and BED versus AN + BN (p < .0001), 
      with BED scoring lower than all other groups. Comparison of BED data to existing 
      normative data yielded significant differences on the cohesion, expressiveness, 
      conflict, independence, intellectual-cultural, active-recreational, and control 
      subscales, with BED patients scoring higher than controls on the conflict and 
      control subscales and lower than controls on all others. These data represent the 
      first study of family characteristics of BED patients utilizing DSM-IV criteria, 
      and provide a beginning understanding of family factors that may be useful in 
      treatment.
FAU - Hodges, E L
AU  - Hodges EL
AD  - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South 
      Carolina, Charleston, USA.
FAU - Cochrane, C E
AU  - Cochrane CE
FAU - Brewerton, T D
AU  - Brewerton TD
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Int J Eat Disord
JT  - The International journal of eating disorders
JID - 8111226
SB  - IM
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Case-Control Studies
MH  - Family/*psychology
MH  - Feeding and Eating Disorders/*psychology
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Social Environment
MH  - South Carolina
EDAT- 1998/03/21 03:19
MHDA- 2000/06/20 09:00
CRDT- 1998/03/21 03:19
PHST- 1998/03/21 03:19 [pubmed]
PHST- 2000/06/20 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 1998/03/21 03:19 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(199803)23:2<145::AID-EAT4>3.0.CO;2-K [pii]
AID - 10.1002/(sici)1098-108x(199803)23:2<145::aid-eat4>3.0.co;2-k [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Eat Disord. 1998 Mar;23(2):145-51. doi: 
      10.1002/(sici)1098-108x(199803)23:2<145::aid-eat4>3.0.co;2-k.