RESUMEN
The study explores possible links between eating attitudes in Greek adolescents and certain psychosocial characteristics such as self-esteem, empathy and anxiety. A total of 202 students (109 boys and 93 girls), 15-18 years old, have been recruited. The following questionnaires were used: the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents, the Multidimensional Body-Self-Questionnaire-Overweight Preoccupation and the Index of Empathy of Children and Adolescents. The EAT-26 revealed that 18.3% of the total sample of students (12.8% of boys and 24.7% of girls) reported having disordered eating attitudes. Adolescents with disordered eating attitudes had significantly higher levels of anxiety and scored less in self-reported physical appearance and romantic appeal. Empathy and global self-esteem did not differ significantly between the two groups. Adolescents with disordered eating attitudes have certain psychosocial characteristics which differentiate them from the students with healthier eating attitudes.
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Imagen Corporal , Conducta Alimentaria/psicología , Trastornos de Alimentación y de la Ingestión de Alimentos/psicología , Autoimagen , Adolescente , Ansiedad/psicología , Actitud Frente a la Salud , Femenino , Grecia , Humanos , Masculino , Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica , Encuestas y CuestionariosRESUMEN
PURPOSE: The experience of our Breast Unit in the diagnosis and treatment of fibroadenomas is presented in this retrospective study, focusing specifically in cancer development within these common benign tumors of young age. MATERIAL-METHODS: 310 women with histologically verified breast fibroadenomas who had surgical management in our Unit over the last 14 years were included in the study. RESULTS: Most of them (n: 255) presented with palpable lesions and had triple assessment preoperatively, while the remaining 55 had nonpalpable lesions and underwent needle-wire localization biopsies. Nine cases had cancer development, usually in situ, within the fibroadenomas (2.9%). CONCLUSION: Coexistence of fibroadenomas and breast cancer is relatively rare, but it should not be ignored by breast surgeons, and patients should be properly informed.