Quality of life and eating disorders symptoms in dancers

Abstract

To analyze the relationship between the domains of quality of life and symptoms of eating disorders. 156 dancers from 31 º Festival de Joinville Dance – Santa Catarina participated in the study, who completed a self-administered questionnaire containing sociodemographic variables, anthropometric measurements, quality of life (WHOQOL-bref.), Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and Bulimic Inventory Test Edinburgh (BITE). A significant association between the presence and absence of symptoms of anorexia compared to female and male dancers (p = 0.001) and three modalities of dance (p = 0.018) and in the presence and absence of symptomatic scale bulimia (p = 0.044) in association with the female and male. Relations between the quality of life and symptoms of anorexia (p = 0.012) and bulimia were found in the scale (p = 0.015). Regarding the symptoms of the scale bulimia was perceived a relationship with the physical scale (p = 0.000), psychological scale (p = 0.032) and social scale (p = 0.010) with the quality of life. The female dancers are prone to the presence of symptoms of anorexia and symptoms of bulimia, as well as the modality of classical ballet and contemporary dance can be influential factor. Found a strong association between the presences of symptoms of eating disorders to the domains of quality of life.