ABSTRACT
Being a medium which is available anywhere and at any time, the Internet is an appropriate contact point for people with psychological or somatic disorders. With this objective, www.hungrig-online.de was established in 1999. It provides information and communication for people affected by an eating disorder. Today, the website is the largest german-speaking Internet portal for eating disorders. In this investigation, 1006 participants were asked about socio-demographic data, details about their eating disorder and their attitudes and expectations concerning hungrig-on-line.de. The answers of the 312 13-to-19-year-old participants are more precisely analysed in this article. They evaluated the offerings of hungrig-online.de mostly positively.
