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Bulimic Syndromes: Secular and Longitudinal Trends, 2001-2002

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Bulimic Syndromes: Secular and Longitudinal Trends, 2001-2002
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FQ5G23
 
Creator Keel, Pamela Kohl
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study was begun in 1982 by a researcher at Radcliffe who surveyed Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen and seniors to determine rates of eating disorders and their symptoms. In 1992, a professor named Todd Heatherton distributed a similar survey to Harvard/Radcliffe freshman and seniors to determine how eating disordered behaviors among college students had changed over time across cohorts (secular trends). Additionally, he re-contacted the alumni who had participated in the study as undergraduates and gave them a similar questionnaire; the purpose of doing this was to evaluate how these behaviors had changed over time within the sample (longitudinal trends). Ten years later, the study was initiated again, and this is the first time that anyone will have such data collected over a twenty-year period. In the spring of 2002, surveys were mailed to Harvard freshmen and seniors, and alumni were re-contacted from both the 1982 and 1992 cohorts. An additional element was added to the design of the study: clinical interviews were conducted with a subset of participants who completed surveys in order to establish the accuracy of information collected on surveys and correlates of disordered eating patterns.


The paper data from this study are not yet available for use
 
Subject Social Sciences
Bulimia
Eating disorders
 
Relation Todd F Heatherton. Follow-up and Replication of Prevalence of Bulimia Among College Students, 1991-1992
study available here

Anne Colby; Norma Ware; Diane M. Zuckerman. Prevalence of Bulimia Among College Students, 1982-1984 study available here