Becker et al (2002) Contemporary Study

Question 1

Why study the research?

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No previous attempts to evaluate the impact of introduction of TV on disordered eating in media niave populations

Question 2

Why Fiji?

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Fijian adolescent girls - a relatively media niave population in which disordered eating was thought to be rare

Question 3

How many cases of reported anorexia had Fiji has by the mid 90s?

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1

Question 4

What are the traditional Fijian aesthetic ideals?

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A preference for a robust body = little pressure to be slim

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Fijian values discourage

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individual efforts to reshape the body by dieting or exercise

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Aim?

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To asses the impact of novel, prolonged exposure to tv on disordered eating attitudes and behaviours among ethnic Fijian adolescent girls

Question 7

The first wave occured in 1995 within a few weeks of the intro of tv in Naroga, the second wave occured in

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1998 after the area had been exposed to tv for 3 years

Question 8

Both qualitative and quantitative methods

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were used to obtain data

Question 9

The mean age was 17, written informed consent was obtained from the ___ ppts in 1995 and ___ ppts in 1998

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63 and 65

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A modified eating attitutes test was divised, contained 26 Qs, that included questions concerning

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bingeing and purging behaviours

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An EAT-26 score greater than 20 was considered to be

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high, weight and height were also measured

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Open ended, semi structured interviews were used to obtain

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qualitative data

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Narrative data from the 1998 sample were audiotaped transcribed and analysed for

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thematic content and frequency of responses

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The no. of EAT-26 scores greater than 20 were

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8 in 1995 and 19 in 1998

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Induced vomiting to control weight …

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0 in 1995 and 7 in 1998

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% of household ownerships of a tv

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1995 - 41.3% and 1998 - 70.8%

Question 17

By 1998 survery data indicated that dieting had become extremely prevalent among the study population, with

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69% reporting that they had dieted to lose wieght at some previous time and 62% reporting that had dieted 4 weeks before the study

Question 18

Of the participants interviewed, 83% responded that they felt tv had specifically influenced their

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friends/themselves to feel differently about or change their body shape or weight

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77% of ppts interviewed said that

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tv influenced their own body image

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The addition of qualitative data provides essential context for

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understanding the connection between TV exposure and symptoms in this population

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Ethics-

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consent was obtained

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Application

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allows insight into development of eating disorders and suggest potential preventive strategies

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Internal validity increased through semi structured interview as

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further info could be gathered to check the understanding of the questionnaire responses, reduces subjectivity

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Questionnaire did not require translation as all ppts wre fluent in English and words that were potentially unfamiliar were explained which

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increases validity as there was little opportunity for the girls to misunderstand what questions were asking

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Clinical diagnoses were not sought and disordered eating attitudes cannot be necessarly equated to the presence of an eating disorder, however

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both high EAT-26 scores and induced vomiting are clinical signs that are associated with eating disorders

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The absense of extremly low weight individuals in either sample may be explained by the

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calorific density of the traditional fijian diet

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Could have been unethical to talk about eating disorders as it is a

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sensitive and personal subject

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Self report data using questionnaires and interviwes is

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open to social desirability bias as they may not have wanted to be honest

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It is possible that participants in successive samples were not fully comparable however

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both study populations were drawn fromt he same grade levels and schools were similar with respect to ethnicity , geder, age and BMI

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We cannot rule out the fact that those who reported eating disorder symptoms in 1995 hadn’t had them

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