Eating disorders and disordered eating behaviors among women: Associations with sexual risk.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between eating disorders or disordered eating behaviors and sexual risk in young women.

Method

We used prospective cohort data of young women ages 18-26 years from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 5,899). Exposures of interest (at 18-26 years) included a self-reported eating disorder diagnosis or disordered eating behaviors including fasting/skipping meals, vomiting, diet pills, or laxative/diuretic use to lose weight and binge eating. Sexual risk outcomes at 7-year follow-up included the number of new sexual partners, condom use, and sexually transmitted infections.

Results

Having either an eating disorder or reporting any disordered eating behavior was associated with a greater number of new sex

SUBMITTER: Fergus KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9714254 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature