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A longitudinal study investigating disordered eating among recently delivered women in Hong Kong
Author(s)
Date Issued
2004
Conference
Citation
Lai, P. Y., & Tang, S. K. (8-13 Aug 2004). A longitudinal study investigating disordered eating among recently delivered women in Hong Kong: The role of spousal support. 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
One-hundred-and thirty-four recently delivered Chinese women participated in a longitudinal study over a 6-month interval to determine prevalence and socio-psychological factors of disordered eating in the postpartum period. Participants in general displayed more severe eating disturbances in the postpartum than prepartum period, with the percentage being 6.6% and 14.4% respectively using the EDI-2 (Garner, 1993). Multiple regression analyses revealed that eating disturbances and inadequate spousal support during pregnancy were significantly related to disordered eating after childbirth. Prepartum depressive symptoms and quality of mother-child relationship were significantly correlated with postpartum disordered eating but this relationship became nonsignificant in regression analyses.
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