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Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa in British Blacks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Neil L. Holden  and
Paul H. Robinson
Neil L. Holden*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, de Crespigny Park
Paul H. Robinson
Affiliation:
Formerly Wellcome Lecturer in Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, currently Senior Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist, King's College Hospital, London
*
∗Senior Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist, Mapperly Hospital, Porchester Road, Nottingham, NG3 6AA
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Abstract

Thirteen black patients were referred over 5 years to the eating-disorders unit at the Maudsley Hospital. Two suffered from anorexia nervosa and 11 from bulimia nervosa. This group was compared with a matched white control group from the total clinic population during that period. The Blacks had more commonly experienced parental divorce or separation, and premorbid obesity, and were more likely to be referred by the emergency services. Their lower educational achievements, and fathers of lower socio-economic status, reflected variation among the general black and white populations in this country, but their educational levels and social statuses were higher than in the general black population.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 4 , April 1988 , pp. 544 - 549
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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