KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND AWARENESS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ABOUT PHENOMENON OF MENTAL ANOREXIA AND MENTAL BULIMIA
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | SCHOOL AND HEALTH 21 Health Education: Initiatives for Educational Areas |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | food intake disorders; mental anorexia; mental bulimia; questionnaire; |
| Description | Eating disorders is the summary designation of one of the most frequent and serious psychosomatic diseases of mainly young girls with serious consequences for physical, psychic and social quality of health. This paper describes the level of awareness of the secondary school students in Tábor concerning the issue of the eating disorders established through the anonymous questionnaire investigation extended by the structured interview. Objective of the research survey was inter alia to evaluate answers to the questions, whether or not the students are informed at schools about theeating disorders, whether or not are they satisfied with their appearance, whether or not do they have any experience of the slimming diets, etc. The research also accommodated establishment of knowledge, comparison of knowledge and attitudes by sex as well as mapping of the information needs of secondary school students in the field of continuing/further education. |