Eating Disorders: Young People
(asked on 15th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) men and (b) women aged 18 to 25 who have eating disorders.
This question was answered on 22nd July 2015
The data requested are not available.
The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (2007) found 6.1% of males and 20.3% of females aged 16-24 who responded to the survey screened positively for an eating disorder. The Survey does not translate these data to national estimates on the prevalence of eating disorders in adults.