| Summary: | Background: Eating disorders is a common disorder in adolescence. Community studies that
used dimensional measures in youths have also shown prevalence of disordered eating behaviors
is from 14% to 22% [1]. Participants with eating disorders reported that a sense of self, mental
wellbeing, social skills, leisure, physical health, work/education, and relationships were the
domains of perceived as being most impaired by their illness. Although a number of risk factors
for eating disorders have been identified, the earlier childhood precursors of adolescence eating
problems are not well understood.
Objective: The aim of this study was therefore to identify early childhood predictors of eating
problems in adolescence, including eating problems with organic causes, temperament,
externalizing and internalizing disorders.
Method: The research was designed as retrospective data collection from case-control studies.
The study population was among Bangladeshi teenagers and their caregivers in Dhaka city.
Standard questionnaires were used to access the eating disorders information and history of
feeding problems. The data was collected through interviews and phone calls. Data management
and analysis was done by statistical software STATA.
Conclusion: The internalizing problems were highly associated with eating disorder in adolescent ages.
Other variables likely do not play as significant determining role in the development of eating issues
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