%0 Journal Article %T Prevalencia de riesgo de trastornos de comportamiento alimentario en una poblaci¨®n femenina de estudiantes de secundaria, Manizales, Colombia, 2011 %A Casta£¿o-Castrill¨®n %A Jos¨¦ Jaime %A Giraldo %A Diana Lorena %A Guevara %A Juliana %A Losada %A Diana Lorena %A Meza %A Lina Marcela %A Narv¨¢ez %A Diana Melissa %A S¨¢nchez %A Liliana Carolina %A Sep¨²lveda %A Mar¨ªa Fernanda %A Vel¨¢squez-Ch¨¢vez %A Joana %J Revista Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecolog¨ªa %D 2012 %I Federaci¨®n Colombiana de Asociaciones de Obstetricia y Ginecolog¨ªa %X objective: determining the presence of eating behavior disorders (ebd) as a high risk factor (positive or negative) according to the edi-2 questionnaire and associated factors in three schoolgirl populations in the city of manizales, colombia. materials and methods: this was cross-sectional study in which students from three private all-girls schools in the city of manizales filled in the eating disorder inventory (edi-2) questionnaire. the inclusion criteria involved being in the 8th, 9th, 10thor 11th grades (i.e. aged around 14-19). informed consent forms were signed. . sample size was 481 students; schools and students were probabilistically sampled and stratified by institution and grade. the variables measured were sociodemographic; family apgar and anthropometric measurements were taken. the edi-2 subscales used were: drive for thinness, bulimia, body dissatisfaction, ineffectiveness, perfectionism, interpersonal distrust, introspective awareness, fear of maturity, asceticism, regulation of impulsiveness and social insecurity. the result was expressed as a risk factor for positive or negative eating behavior disorders; this was positive if the drive for thinness subscale had a value greater than 14. analysis involved measures of central tendency and dispersion for continuous variables and percentages for categorical variables. results: it was found that 24.7% of the study population had a positive risk factor for developing ebd according to the edi-2 questionnaire. the following factors were found to be associated with an ebd: alcohol consumption (p=0.002), a family background of ebd (p=0.000), perception of being overweight (p=0.000), family functionality (p=0.000), body mass index (p=0.032) and practically all the anthropometric measurements, except size. conclusions: the prevalence of risk factors for eating behavior disorders detected in this study showed that ebd continues to be a serious problem in female colombian adolescents. %K eating behavior disorder %K risk factor %K female student %K adolescent. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-74342012000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en