Anorexia Nervosa in Southeast Asian Refugees: A Report on Three Cases
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryPublished 1 September 1987Open access
TERESA M. KOPE, William H. Sack
Citations25
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score3.00
SNIP2.88
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
Abstract
This is a clinical case report on three cases of anorexia nervosa occurring in adolescent Southeast Asian refugees. Some related sociocultural aspects of this multidetermined disorder are discussed. Research into the prevalence of anorexia nervosa in this group and the relationship between the immigration experience and the development of anorexia nervosa is indicated.
Keywords
PsychologyMedicineHealth Professions
Psychological MedicineSocio-cultural factors in the development of anorexia nervosa
767 Citations1980David M. Garner, Paul E. Garfinkel
The data suggest that both pressures to be slim and achievement expectations are risk factors in the development of anorexia nervosa.
Psychological MedicineCross-cultural differences in the perception of female body shapes
298 Citations1983Adrian Furnham, Naznin Alibhai
The results support the view that social and cultural factors play dominant role in the perception of one's own and others' body shapes and reveal that in Britain preferences for small body shapes to the point of being anorexic are not uncommon.
Archives of General PsychiatryAdaptational Problems of Vietnamese Refugees
206 Citations1979Keh‐Ming Lin
The responses on the CMI on the first (1975) and second (1976) administrations indicate a high and continuing level of physical and mental dysfunction.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of PsychiatryFrequency of Presentation of Anorexia Nervosa in Malaysia
105 Citations1981Neil Buhrich
Primary anorexia nervosa appears to be a very rare condition in Malaysia, especially amongst Malays compared to Chinese and Indians, and the reasons for the racial differences and the apparent infrequency of the condition are discussed.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseasePsychiatric Problems among Adolescent Southeast Asian Refugees A Descriptive Study
76 Citations1983Carolyn L. Williams, Joseph Westermeyer
Cases of adolescents encountered in a psychiatric setting in Southeast Asia are reviewed in order to provide a description of their presenting complaints and problems, as well as diagnostic categories and demographic characteristics.
Journal of the American Academy of Child PsychiatryAnorexia Nervosa in Black Adolescents
68 Citations1984Andrés J. Pumariega, Palmer Edwards +1 more
Two cases of adolescent black female patients, seen over a 6-month period, who developed anorexia nervosa are reported on, raising questions about the possible rising incidence of this disorder among blacks.
Psychosomatic MedicinePsychiatric and Psychosomatic Problems among Southeast Asian Refugees
63 Citations1983San Duy Nguyen
Since 1975, over one-half million refugees from Southeast Asia have resettled in North America and Canada has admitted approximately 75,000 of those displaced persons, with growing evidence that a significant number are experiencing considerable emotional distress.
The British Journal of PsychiatryAnorexia Nervosa in a Developing Country
55 Citations1981A Nwaefuna
The dopamine hypothesis for schizophrenia should originally have been constructed in a wider context as a †̃¿ dopamine hypothesis' to explain the positive symptoms of acute psychotic illness, whatever its cause.
Archives of General PsychiatryAdaptation Problems of Vietnamese Refugees
52 Citations1980Minoru Masuda
The Vietnamese perceptions of the life events that have swirled about them as well as the occurrences of these life events are documents as part of an ongoing study.
Journal of the American Academy of Child PsychiatryIndochinese Immigrant Children: Problems in Psychiatric Diagnosis
20 Citations1985Penelope Krener, CHARLENE SABIN
The revision of the diagnoses for Indochinese refugee children and adolescents confounded the application of DSM-III and the implications for the limitations for present diagnostic models are briefly explored.
PubMedAnorexia nervosa in black adolescents.
16 Citations1984Tomás J. Silber
A report of the presentation and clinical course of this disorder in two black female adolescents illustrates a serious medical psychiatric problem that may be increasingly detected among predisposed teenagers of the black middle and professional classes.
Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchPsychosomatic mechanism under social changes in Japan
15 Citations1974Yujiro Ikemi, Yukihiro Agō +6 more