Societal-Psychological factors affecting anorexia an children / 中华护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the environmental factors a nd individual personalities of anorectic children in order to improve their nu rsing care.Methods:Forty-six children with anorexia caused by emotional disorders and 50 healthy children were tested by a societa l-psychological factor questionnaire and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Junior) to observe their external environmental factors and individual persona lities,respectively.Results:Encidence of pressures from school work,forced eatin g by parents and family discord emerged more frequently in the anorectic group than in the co ntrol group.Scores in the anorectic group were significantly lower in the scale E level and markedly higher in the scale N level than those of the control group (P<0.01).There was no significant difference between the two groups in the P and L scales .Conclusion:The three factors mentioned above were most closely related to onset of disease, among the factors we observed.Both an intro verted personality and unstable emotions are key,characteristics that can induc e anorexia when affected by these factors.Comprehensive nursing care,mainly cons isting of psychiatric-behavioral correction,is proposed to obviate the inducing factors and rectify emotional disorders to promote recovery from anorexia.