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Abstract
Aim: The aim of this research was to studying the eating disorders in athletic and non-athletic girls with different body compositions.
Method: In this research, eating disorders of 570 female athletes (including 277 athletes and 293 non-athletes) were examined with EAT-26 questionnaire. For statistical analysis the U man-Whitney, kruskal-wallis and one way ANOVA tests were used, also Cronbach’s alpha was used for determining interclass consistent reliability of questionnaires.
Key words: Eating disorder, Female athlete's, Body composition.
Results: results revealed that athletic female with different body composition haven’t different eating disorder, whereas there are significant differences in eating disorder of overweight non-athletic girls (P<0/01).
Conclusion: it’s concluded that there are significant differences between athletes and non- athletes in eating disorders prevalence that this disorders was higher in athletic group
Key words: Eating disorder, Female athlete's, Body composition.
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