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  • 23 - Primary prevention of eating disorders

  • from Part V - Public health perspectives
  • Edited by Tony Jaffa
  • Brett McDermott, University of Queensland
  • Book:
    Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents
    Published online:
    02 December 2009
    Print publication:
    14 December 2006, pp 293-304

  • Summary

    Given the serious physical, psychological, social and financial consequences of eating disorders (EDs) and the difficulties of treatment, successful prevention strategies would obviously be of paramount importance. In this chapter several strategies for primary prevention interventions are described. Eating-disorder preventative educational programmes have been developed for secondary schools and for the final year of primary schools as these are the age groups at highest risk for developing an ED. An advantage of prevention programmes focusing on improvement of self-esteem and body image is that these are important for general health not just for EDs. Most prevention programmes were universal programmes for all adolescents (girls and boys) and some programmes were for selected high-risk girls. The final year of the primary school and the first year of secondary school can be argued to be the most relevant period for primary prevention programmes.