Rosa M Raich

• PhD
• Autonomous University of Barcelona

Eating disorders (ED) affect around 4% of Spanish adolescents and are often chronic, comorbid and refractory to intervention. Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behavior are the most powerful changeable risk factors for ED. Effective prevention programs address media literacy, emotional intelligence, self-esteem, social skills and problem-s...

Background: In recent years, the broad spectrum of weight-related problems has increased considerably among both teenage boys and girls. This makes it fundamental to create programs that are more efficient. The objective of this study was to evaluate the short-, mid- and long-term efficacy of the current prevention program applied to 14-year-old t...

Associations between disordered eating, internalization of beauty ideals, and self-esteem have been mainly studied in a unidirectional way. Therefore, this study explored the potential bidirectional associations between these three aspects, in a sample of 303 adolescents aged 12 to 15 (140 females and 163 males), in a 16-month longitudinal prospect...

Cross-cultural studies comparing eating attitudes among adolescents from southern-European countries are scarce. We aimed to compare body-dissatisfaction, disordered-eating attitudes, awareness and internalisation of the unrealistic-body-ideal, self-esteem, perfectionism and impulsivity among adolescents from Spain and Portugal. Participants were 2...

Background: Perinatal grief differs from other types of mourning. Two goals were set: to describe the progression of the process of grief and the symptoms of depression throughout the year following perinatal loss, and to study its association with socio-economic and obstetric factors. Method: The study involved the participation of 70 women who...

The objective of the research was to analyze the relationship between country of origin, body image dissatisfaction, influence of the aesthetic body shape model and self-esteem on the development of eating disorders (ED) symptomatology in Mexican and Spanish adolescents. The participants were 117 female adolescents, 68 from Mexico and 49 from Spain...

Aims: As eating disorders have severe consequences, they require prevention. We aimed to compare maladaptive beliefs related to eating disorders by following two programs based on media literacy in adolescents at post-test intervention, and after 6 and 12month-follow-ups. The Male and Female Nutrition and Media Literacy Model preventive program (N...

Background. Gender ideology plays an important role in human behaviour, and therefore its assessment, not only in particular areasbut considering a wide variety of situationsconcerning both public and private life, is necessary. Methods. This study presents the Spanish version of the questionnaire developed in 1996 by Prasad and Baron, a tool for m...

Introducción.El sesgo de género es una realidad frecuentemente reportada en la literatura médica. El abordaje diagnosticoterapéutico de una situación clínica sin perspectiva ni sensibilidad de género se fundamenta en el sexismo, ya sea benevolente u hostil. Es asumible que l@s profesionales sanitari@s menos sexistas tendrán menor riesgo de ejercer...

Qualitative studies examining gender differences of eating disorder prevention programmes are scarce. We aimed to evaluate gender differences in adolescents who participated in a larger study on effectiveness of a disordered eating prevention programme. Perceptions of eating, female and male aesthetic models, media influences, prevention programmes...

We aimed to assess the association of several risk factors for eating disturbances in adolescents. Participants were 448 girls and boys aged 12-15 years. Being female, higher body mass index, internalisation of standard of appearance, perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, number of lifetime addictive behaviours and lower self-esteem were associated...

The aim of this study was to explore the differences in patterns of risk factors for body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes in both female and male adolescents from Portugal and Spain. The sample included 455 adolescents aged 12-16 years (M = 13.28, SD = 0.65) from two urban areas of each country. Body mass index, self-reported self-e...

Introducción. Los sesgos psicosociales en medicina hacen referencia a la tendencia a la concepción y la praxis médicas por y para un sujeto normativo hegemónico.Sus expresiones clínicas son fundamentalmente de dos tipos:a) Universalización de abordajes diagnóstico-terapéutico-preventivos por extrapolación de resultados de investigación obtenidos co...

Objective: This study identifies the risk factors for extreme weight-control behaviors among adolescents in public school in Salvador, northeastern Brazil. Methods: A case-control study nested to a cross-sectional study, including 252 adolescents of both sexes, age between 11 to 17 years, with 84 cases and 168 age-matched controls was conducted....

Aims: To evaluate the long-term effects of two school-based prevention programs administered to a universal mixed-sex sample of school-going adolescents on disturbed eating attitudes, aesthetic ideal internalization, and other eating disorder risk factors, when compared to a control group. Methods: Participants were 200 adolescents aged 12-15 se...

The androcentrist discursive practices of medicine ground the existence of the phenomenon of gender bias in clinical praxis. This phenomenon is defined as the provision of medical care which is inappropriately different or similar -considering available scientific evidence- to female or male patients. Gender-biased medical practice is profoundly co...

INTRODUCCIÓN Y OBJETIVOS. El término sesgo de género hace referencia, en medicina, a la existencia de distinciones no justificables por la evidencia empírica disponible en el abordaje diagnóstico y/o terapéutico de los/las pacientes en función de su género. De este modo, se ha descrito en varios contextos que la probabilidad de que sea practicada u...

Aim: The aim of the study was to compare individual and cultural risk factors of body image dissatisfaction in three studies that compare Chilean, Portuguese and Mexican samples of adolescents to Spanish ones. Method: The samples studied comprised: 106 Chilean, 102 Portu- guese and the 123 Mexican adolescent. Every sample was compared to a Spanish...

Background and objective To validate the best cut-off point of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), Spanish version, for the screening of eating disorders (ED) in the general population. Material and method This was a transversal cross-sectional study. The EAT-40 Spanish version was administered to a representative sample of 1.543 students, age ran...

The views of French, Portuguese, and Spanish people on end-of-life decisions were compared. Two hundred seventy-seven adults from Barcelona, Oporto, and Toulouse judged the acceptability of life-ending procedures in 42 scenarios composed of all combinations of 3 factors: the patient's age (30 or 80 years), the patient's life expectancy (days, weeks...

To contribute new evidence to the controversy about the factor structure of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and to provide, for the first time, norms based on a large adolescent Mexican community sample, regarding sex and area of residence (urban/rural). A total of 2928 schoolchildren (1544 females and 1384 males) aged 11-18 w...

To validate the best cut-off point of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), Spanish version, for the screening of eating disorders (ED) in the general population. This was a transversal cross-sectional study. The EAT-40 Spanish version was administered to a representative sample of 1.543 students, age range 12 to 21 years, in the Region of Madrid. Si...

Objective: To identify the prevalence of body image dissatisfaction and associated factors among students in Salvador, Brazil. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving a random sample of 1,494 (852 girls and 642 boys) adolescents between 11 and 17 years of age who were students in the public schools in Salvador, Brazil. Participants completed...

Background: This study presents normative data on the Spanish Version of the Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire (S-EDE-Q) for adolescents and young adults in Spain. Method: A sample of 1,543 men and women, aged 12 - 21 years, completed the S-EDE-Q as part of a larger assessment battery. Results: Means, standard deviations, clinical sig...

We assessed changes in the body image of Spanish adolescents who participated in a programme aimed at preventing disordered eating, with a 30-month follow-up. 254 girls and 189 boys aged 12-14 were assigned to a control group (n=201) or one of two possible experimental conditions: media literacy programme (ML, n=143) and media literacy plus nutriti...

This study aimed to analyze the association between traumatic experiences (TEs) and eating symptoms and their severity in a healthy group (HG) of students and an eating disorder group (EDG). The HG (N=150) comprised first- and secondyear undergraduate psychology students, the EDG (N=150) day hospital patients. EDG patients were evaluated consecutiv...

This paper describes the process of constructing a questionnaire for "Specific Cognitions related to Eating Disorders" (CE-TCA in Spanish), which measures specific cognitions that commonly take place in patients suffering eating disorders, and provides evidence regarding its psychometric properties. The final 26-item version was administered to fou...

The assessment of eating disorder prevention-programmes has mainly been addressed quantitatively excluding complexity that may improve prevention. We compared perceptions of eating, female and male aesthetic-models, media influences, prevention-programmes and emerging topics among 12 young females who received a media literacy programme (N = 4), me...

This research examines the internal consistency, convergent validity, and sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value of the Spanish version of the Eating Disorder Examination-Self-Report Questionnaire (S-EDE-Q), as a screening questionnaire for eating disorders (ED) in a community sample. Participants were 1543 male and fe...

This research examines the internal consistency, convergent validity, and sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value of the Spanish version of the Eating Disorder Examination-Self-Report Questionnaire (S-EDE-Q), as a screening questionnaire for eating disorders (ED) in a community sample. Participants were 1543 male and fe...

Currently, there is a higher occurrence of biopsychosocial diseases, especially eating disorders, involving different body systems and aspects related to the individual and their social relations. Addressing current and relevant issues about the prevalence, incidence and risk factors for anorexia and bulimia nervosa in adolescence. Search the datab...

Introduction: Currently, there is a higher occurrence of biopsychosocial diseases, especially eating disorders, involving different body systems and aspects related to the individual and their social relations. Objective: Addressing current and relevant issues about the prevalence, incidence and risk factors for anorexia and bulimia nervosa in adol...

To assess the relationship between childhood sexual and physical abuse, and key attitudinal and behavioural aspects of eating disorders (ED). Participants included 708 female undergraduates in a Spanish public university, aged from 18 to 30. Abuse was measured by the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire, and ED by the Eating Disorders Examination Qu...

This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Body Image Questionnaire (QÜIC) in Spanish adolescents. The sample comprised 254 girls and 189 boys, aged 12-15. Principal component analyses showed that the 18 satisfaction items could be summarized using two moderately interrelated dimensions, torso and head/limbs, with satisfaction with...

Background: Most studies on the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) focus exclusively on women. Aims: To examine the internal consistency and convergent validity of the EDE-Q in Spanish undergraduate men and to compare the results with those obtained previously in college samples of Spanish women and American men. Methods: 269 college...

The present study aims to evaluate the long-term effects of a school-based prevention programme administered to adolescents; the purpose of the said programme was to reduce disordered eating attitudes and sociocultural influences on the internalisation of the aesthetical body ideal. A total of 254 girls and 189 boys were assigned to a control (n = ...

This study assessed the impact of a school-based program aimed at preventing disordered eating. The program was based on the media-literacy approach and has interactive format. The program was assessed under strong methodological conditions. Seven schools with 263 Spanish adolescent girls in the area of Barcelona, were randomly assigned to either t...

This paper describes the process of constructing a questionnaire for “Specific Cognitions related to Eating Disorders” (CE-TCA in Spanish), which measures specific cognitions that commonly take place in patients suffering eating disorders, and provides evidence regarding its psychometric properties. The final 26-item version was administered to fou...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the internal consistency reliability and the convergent validity of the Spanish version of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and to provide EDE-Q norms for Spanish undergraduate women. Seven hundred eight college women, aged 18–30years, volunteered to complete the EDE-Q, BSQ and E...

Objetivo: En este artículo se recopilan y revisan los estudios epidemiológicos sobre trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) realizados en España hasta la fecha. Método: Se ha realizado una búsqueda bibliográfica mediante las bases de datos PSYCINFO y MEDLINE de estudios empíricos publicados sobre epidemiología de TCA en España. Resultados: La...

There is currently controversy surrounding the effectiveness of universal versus selective prevention in eating disorders (ED). The present study aims at evaluating the effectiveness of universal school-based ED prevention administered to female secondary school students (n = 349). Students received either the full prevention programme (learning ba...

Objective: This article reviews the epidemiological studies of eating disorders (ED) among Spanish population published to date. Method: PSYCINFO and MEDLINE databases have been used to look for empirical Spanish epidemiological studies of ED published. Results: Most of the studies in the 90's have not used a diagnostic method for the clinical iden...

El primer objetivo del estudio es evaluar restrospectivamente, la relevancia de factores de riesgo en pacientes con Trastorno de la Conducta Alimentaria (TCA) en función de la categoría diagnóstica. El segundo objetivo, es evaluar la psicopatología alimentaria, la insatisfacción corporal y el funcionamiento psicológico en cada grupo diagnóstico. Mé...

The aim of the study was to compare individual, family, and cultural risk factors of eating disturbance in Spanish and Chilean adolescents. The sample comprised 172 Spanish and 106 Chilean adolescents of both genders, aged from 12 to 14 years, who participated in a cross section descriptive study. Body Mass Index, diet, internalization of body shap...

En el presente trabajo se analizan los resultados obtenidos mediante la aplicación del inventario de Gambrill i Richey a u a muestra de estudiantes de Psicología de la Universitat Autdnoma de Barcelona. En el análisis factorial hemos hallado un primer factor con una saturación en asertividad más alta que los hallados por las autoras. En nuestro est...

We assessed the prospective association of risk factors for eating and body image disturbances after a 2-year follow-up in a community sample of Spanish adolescent girls. The participants included 128 Spanish girls aged 12-14, who took part in a 28-month prospective study. Aspects assessed were eating attitudes (Eating Attitudes Test), influence of...

There is currently controversy surrounding the effectiveness of universal versus selective prevention in eating disorders (ED). The present study aims at evaluating the effectiveness of universal school-based ED prevention administered to female secondary school students (n = 349). Students received either the full prevention programme (learning ba...

The aim of this research was to compare two different case-identification designs: (a) a one-stage anonymous design using the Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q; Fairburn & Beglin, 1994) as diagnostic instrument and (b) a two-stage-non-anonymous design using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT; Garner & Garfinkel, 1979) and the EDE-Q as s...

Objective: The first aim of this study is a retrospective assessment of relevant risk factors in patients with Eating Disorders (ED). The second aim is to study eating psychopathology, body shape concern and psychological functioning assessment in different groups of eating disorders. Method: Evaluation before intervention of 73 patients with Bulim...

The aim of this research was to compare two different case-identification designs: (a) a one-stage anonymous design using the Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q; Fairburn & Beglin, 1994) as diagnostic instrument and (b) a two-stage-non-anonymous design using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT; Garner & Garfinkel, 1979) and the EDE-Q as s...

This study assesses the impact of an eating disorders universal preventive program on a representative sample of Spanish adolescents in the area of Barcelona, Spain. 323 adolescent girls were assigned to three experimental conditions: complete intervention, partial intervention, and non-treatment. The program obtained a significant change in reduci...

This article examines the relation between dieting and non-dieting adolescent girls and body mass index (BMI), eating attitudes and the influence of the aesthetic body shape model. Three hundred forty-nine Spanish adolescent girls in their second year of secondary education were selected. The research design was a cross-sectional ex post facto stud...

Objective: The prevalence of eating disorders (EDs) in a representative scholastic sample was evaluated, and the demo-graphic factors associated with ED were assessed. Method: The study used a two-stage epidemiological design. The study population was a randomly selected sample of 1545 students (12-to 21-year-old males and females) in the region of...

The prevalence of eating disorders (EDs) in a representative scholastic sample was evaluated, and the demographic factors associated with ED were assessed. The study used a two-stage epidemiological design. The study population was a randomly selected sample of 1545 students (12- to 21-year-old males and females) in the region of Madrid (Spain). ED...

Abstract The aim of the present study was to determine whether anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) share clinical and psychopathological traits. The sample consisted of 90 female patients (30 OCD; 30 AN; 30 BN), who had been consecutively referred to the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital o...

The study was aimed at determining the dimensions of fear of pain associated with medical procedures and the dimensions of fear of pain associated with illnesses and accidents on a sample composed of young, middle-aged and elderly persons. The participants were 573 adults (aged 26-94 years). They were presented with (a) the French adaptation of the...

En: Aula de innovación educativa Barcelona 2006, n. 153-154, julio-agosto; p. 71-74 Bajo la denominación de trastornos del comportamiento alimentario se hallan muchas alteraciones además de la anorexia y la bulimia. Los trastornos psicopatológicos relacionados con la ingesta de alimentos pueden incluir otros muchos problemas: insatisfacción, depres...

In the present study, the methodological designs and diagnostic instruments used in the estimation of the prevalence of eating disorders among general population are revised. The advantages, inconveniences and biases associated with the use of each methodological procedure are shown. The inherent difficulties attached to the estimation of eating di...

Le but de l’étude est l’adaptation, en langue française, d’un questionnaire anglosaxon d’insatisfaction corporelle : Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ, Cooper et al., 1987) et de tester sa fidélité et sa validité concourante sur un échantillon de 242 étudiantes. Les relations entre les catégories de poids et l’insatisfaction corporelle et les facteurs...

In today's societies, pressures from the idea of thinness are omnipresent and lead to a corporal dissatisfaction with an excessive preoccupation of the body's image. It seems important to have, in France, a device that can evaluate the corporal dissatisfaction degree, for the reason that the troubles of the body's image is a common diagnostical cat...

In the present study, the methodological designs and diagnostic instruments used in the estimation of the prevalence of eating disorders among general population are revised. The advantages, inconveniences and biases associated with the use of each methodological procedure are shown. The inherent difficulties attached to the estimation of eating di...

Background and objective We aimed at determining the prevalence of eating disorders (ED) inyoung adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Subjects and method 60 boys and 38 girls with type 1 diabetes and 321 boys and 254 girls,age-matched non-diabetic controls. The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) and semistructured diagnosticinterview on Eating Disorders...

This article reviews the epidemiological studies of eating disorders among Spanish popula-tion. They have found several methodological biases: Most studies have not used any diagnostic method. None of the two-stage epidemiological studies have estimated the sensibility of the scre-ening questionnaire. Because of that, it is important to study the p...

We proposed a model for bulimic symptoms in a sample of 153 female university students attending the Faculty of Psychology, and determined the extent to which such symptoms could be explained by these variables. The following variables were measured during class time: the effects of aesthetic body modelling, the impact of teasing about weight and o...

We aimed at determining the prevalence of eating disorders (ED) in young adolescents with type 1 diabetes. 60 boys and 38 girls with type 1 diabetes and 321 boys and 254 girls, age-matched non-diabetic controls. The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) and semistructured diagnostic interview on Eating Disorders Examination (EDE) were used. Weight, height...

En este trabajo se describen algunas definiciones y el concepto de imagen corporal y laspreocupaciones exageradas acerca de sí mismo que pueden llegar a constituir el trastorno dismórfico.Se analizan las características clínicas de este trastorno, así como las quejas que sobre la aparienciason más frecuentes. Se estudia la relación de este trastorn...

In this article we analyze some body image definitions. Also we study the body image exaggerated worries, and the Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). We analyze clinical features of this disorder as well as the most frequent complaints about appearance. We study the relationship among BDD and self-esteem level, gender identity, interpersonal anxiety an...

The present article shows a review of interventions regarding Body Image Disorder (Body Dysmorphic Disorder) as well as an application of a cognitive-behavioral intervention with university students. The assesment at the pre and post-treatment and at the follow-up with the Body Shape Questionnaire (Cooper, Taylor, Cooper and Fairburn et al, 1987),...

Although eating disorders are common in late adolescent diabetic patients, the occurrence in younger populations, particularly male diabetic patients, is not well documented (1,2). The prevalence was studied in 60 boys and 38 girls (13.78 ± 1.05 years of age, range 12–16) with diabetes duration 1.5 ± 3.35 years and in 321 boys and 254 girls as nond...

Cita del prólogo del Profesor Ramón Bayés: "Instrumentos de evaluación en psicología de la salud es un libro útil porque ofrece al lector caminos y estrategias concretas, fruto del trabajo de muchos investigadores que lo han precedido, para que pueda adentrarse con mayor seguridad y profundizar en algunos de los ámbitos más interesantes de la psic...

El objetivo de este trabajo es averiguar si la forma de administrar una subescala de evaluación de Insatisfacción Corporal (IC), procedente de un cuestionario más amplio, afecta a la tendencia de respuesta. En la investigación participaron 147 adolescentes estudiantes de secundaria de entre 14 y 17 años y de ambos sexos, los cuales fueron asignados...

En la bulimia nerviosa, como en el caso de otros trastornos mentales, suele describirse con frecuencia una alta comorbilidad con otras patologías y/o trastornos psiquiátricos, y especialmente con trastornos de la personalidad. A pesar de que numerosos estudios analizan la relación existente entre trastornos de personalidad y trastornos de la alimen...

In this study, the authors analyzed the efficacy of Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for relapse-prevention in 10 patients with “Eating Disorders” (ED): 3 with bulimia nervosa (BN) and 7 with anorexia nervosa (AN). These patients had finished their treatment in the Hospital Nutrition Service after their nutritional recovery and symptomatic decrea...

This article presents an assessment instrument to measure body image and body image disorder symptoms, the self-report version of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Examination (BDDE-Q) by Reiter and Rosen (2000). The goal of this research was to validate this questionnaire in a Spanish sample. Different psychometric properties such as factorial analysis...

It is generally accepted that the causes of eating disorders constitute a complex set of phenomena involving the interplay of biological, psychological and social factors. Within this etiological framework, family relationships have received considerable attention as either risk or maintenance factors. In an attempt to identify family factors that...

Cross-cultural studies can provide important data on the influence of cultural factors in the growth and control of eating disorders and their symptoms. If, moreover, those studies deal with the same language but different contexts, the comparison may be richer and the knowledge derived more significant. The main aim of the present study is to iden...

The objective of this study was to examine the effects of a brief and economical procedure in the preparation of surgical patients. More specifically, the study was intended to test whether patient's monitoring style (high vs. low) makes any difference to the benefits of a relaxation technique. Ninety-two patients scheduled for hysterectomy with do...

Este trabajo analiza la atribución de culpa en casos de violación y se realizó para conocer por qué se culpa más a unas víctimas que a otras. Participaron 863 estudiantes de segundo curso (ambos sexos) de las Facultades de Derecho, Medicina y Psicología de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, España. A través de dos Estudios, los sujetos leyeron 9...

The two objectives of this study were: (1) to replicate previous findings on the effects of relaxation in the preparation for surgery, and (2) to analyse the interaction effect between type of intervention (i.e., relaxation and information provision) and coping style (i.e., high versus low monitoring) on patients' pain level and the return to norma...

The Stunkard-Messick Eating Questionnaire (Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire, TFEQ) of Stunkard and Messick (1985) is one of the most common measures for dietary restraint. In the present work, data about a preliminary adaptation and validation with a Spanish college sample are presented (n=335). Our results do not replicate the three factor struct...