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Middle Eastern women have long been oppressed through fundamentalist cultures and restrictive societies. As a result of such demoralization, Middle Eastern women have begun to cope with such physical, psychological and emotional burdens through placing vast focus on their appear…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how community healthcare stakeholders living in the Midwest region described how they think religion and environment might influence eating disorder risk factors in Jewish orthodox adolescent females. The two resea…

Young adult women are more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies (Wansink et al., 2017) and engage in disordered eating patterns when they have a history of receiving parental comments about their bodies during childhood (Fortesa & Ajete, 2014). Furthermore, high bodily sh…

While a number of risk factors have been identified that impact the development and maintenance of eating disorders, such as sexual abuse and elevated levels of shape and weight concern, familial factors and the impact they play in the etiology of eating disorders has also been …