Title |
When eating healthy is not healthy: orthorexia nervosa and its measurement with the ORTO-15 in Hungary
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Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, February 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-244x-14-59 |
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Authors |
Márta Varga, Barna Konkolÿ Thege, Szilvia Dukay-Szabó, Ferenc Túry, Eric F van Furth |
Abstract |
For a better differential diagnosis of eating disorders, it is necessary to investigate their subtypes and develop specific assessment tools to measure their specific symptoms. Orthorexia nervosa is an alleged eating disorder in which the person is excessively preoccupied with healthy food. The ORTO-15, designed by Donini and colleagues, is the first and only at least partially validated instrument to measure this construct. The aims of the present study were to examine the psychometric properties of its Hungarian adaptation (ORTO-11-Hu), and to investigate its relationship to food consumption and lifestyle habits in order to contribute to a better description of the phenomenon. |
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United States | 1 | 6% |
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Czechia | 1 | <1% |
Canada | 1 | <1% |
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Student > Master | 49 | 15% |
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Researcher | 20 | 6% |
Student > Postgraduate | 15 | 5% |
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Nursing and Health Professions | 51 | 16% |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 13 | 4% |
Other | 30 | 9% |
Unknown | 92 | 29% |