Open AccessMass media influence and risk of developing eating disorders in female students from Lima, Peru
Author(s) -
Yessenia Lazo Montoya,
Alejandra Quenaya,
Percy MaytaTristán
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
archivos argentinos de pediatría
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1668-3501
pISSN - 0325-0075
DOI - 10.5546/aap.2015.eng.519
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , eating disorders , demography , mass media , internalization , body mass index , cross sectional study , public health , relative risk , gerontology , psychiatry , pathology , advertising , sociology , receptor , business
Eating disorders (EDs) are a public health problem, and their relationship to mass media is still controversial.