Study the eating disorders in athletes and non-athletic girls with different body composition

The aim of this research was to studying the eating disorders in athletic and non-athletic girls with different body compositions. In this research, eating disorders of 570 female athletes (including 277 athletes and 293 non-athletes) were examined with EAT-26 questionnaire. For statistical analysis the U man-Whitney, kruskal-wallis and one way ANOVA tests were used, also Cronbach’s alpha was used for determining interclass consistent reliability of questionnaires. results revealed that athletic female with different body composition haven’t different eating disorder, whereas there are significant differences in eating disorder of overweight non-athletic girls (P<0/01). it’s concluded that there are significant differences between athletes and non- athletes in eating disorders prevalence that this disorders was higher in athletic group.