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Ipecac abuse in a sample of eating disordered outpatients
Author(s) -
Greenfeld David,
Mickley Diane,
Quinlan Donald M.,
Roloff Phyllis
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(199305)13:4<411::aid-eat2260130410>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - disordered eating , psychology , sample (material) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , eating disorders , developmental psychology , physics , thermodynamics
Eight hundred fifty‐one consecutive outpatients presenting at a suburban eating disorder clinic were evaluated for current or past ipecac abuse. A percentage (7.6%) of all subjects reported some use or experimentation with ipecac for purging; 4.7% had experimented with it briefly; 3.7% (8.8% of subjects meeting criteria for bulimia) had chronically abused ipecac; and 1.1% (1.5% of subjects meeting criteria for bulimia) were regularly abusing ipecac at the time of intake. Chronic ipecac abusers were more likely to have been hospitalized. Subjects who experimented briefly with ipecac had a longer duration of illness. Both chronic ipecac abusers and experimenters were more prone to abuse other substances for purging and to report alcohol abuse in an immediate family member. © 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.