The basic overview of this case study was to take three different kinds of groups, which were the bulimia nervosa group, the psychiatric disorder group and lastly the healthy control group and compare their life events. The way the researchers found those who had a psychiatric disorder was if they were directly diagnosed by a psychiatrist or psychologist. The groups were evenly split up into 60 women per group. The ages ranged from 15 to 39 years old. Each individual person was questioned about their lives in order to get a sense of any important life events. This case study also included the social class of each group in addition to their marital status. Those who conducted the study matched one person from one group with one other person
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At first when reading the article I had a sense of what bulimia nervosa was but wanted to learn more about what psychiatric disorders were. According to Kristalyn Salters, a psychiatric disorder is a mental illness diagnosed by a mental health professional that greatly disturbs your thinking, moods, and/or behavior (2017). I know there are many people who suffer from mental disorders and I was interested to see how they would compare to the other two groups as well. I was surprised the ones who had bulimia had a little more stress and life events happened to them than those who had a psychiatric disorder. It was not by a lot but I still believed those with mental illness were going to be the ones who were the most stressed. I assumed because they had a mental illness they would report more than those with bulimia nervosa but they did not. The healthy control group results surprised me as well. I was not expecting the largest number for the healthy group to be with change in family structure with 23.3% (S.Gonçalves, C.Machado, P.Machado, 2014). The life event dealing with family structure was not something I thought many would have a problem with. Although 23.3% does not seem like a lot, it was the highest number to appear within the life events for the healthy group. I was confused as to why researchers chose to only pick women to be apart of this study since it was not
At first when reading the article I had a sense of what bulimia nervosa was but wanted to learn more about what psychiatric disorders were. According to Kristalyn Salters, a psychiatric disorder is a mental illness diagnosed by a mental health professional that greatly disturbs your thinking, moods, and/or behavior (2017). I know there are many people who suffer from mental disorders and I was interested to see how they would compare to the other two groups as well. I was surprised the ones who had bulimia had a little more stress and life events happened to them than those who had a psychiatric disorder. It was not by a lot but I still believed those with mental illness were going to be the ones who were the most stressed. I assumed because they had a mental illness they would report more than those with bulimia nervosa but they did not. The healthy control group results surprised me as well. I was not expecting the largest number for the healthy group to be with change in family structure with 23.3% (S.Gonçalves, C.Machado, P.Machado, 2014). The life event dealing with family structure was not something I thought many would have a problem with. Although 23.3% does not seem like a lot, it was the highest number to appear within the life events for the healthy group. I was confused as to why researchers chose to only pick women to be apart of this study since it was not