DIABULIMIA: ALIMENTARY DISTURBANCES ASSOCIATED TO THE CORPORAL IMAGE OF CARRIERS OF DIABETES MELLITUS I

Abstract

The search for physical activities and exercises associated to the search for the good shape has instigated professionals from different fields to carry through research and studies based on the empirical comments of the daily work. The requirements to get beauty and thin are valued in the current days when we live a context where the beauty became an imperative. The corporal industry, possibly through the medias, has been creating desires, strengthening images and standardizing bodies. The objective that origins this study: to identify the incidence of diabulimia, associated to the corporal image in people with diabetes mellitus type I (DM 1). This estudy is based on Azevedo, Papelbaum e D'Elia (2002), Goldenberg (2002), Marcelino e Carvalho (2005). This is a descriptive and exploratory research. The involved population was composed by carriers of diabetes mellitus I individuals, with an sample comprised of 20 citizens. The data was gathered through a questionnaire. The questionnaire was adapted from the Body and Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) applied as a measurement of the concerns with the corporal form. Also It was noticed that the free association of ideas in relation to the word body, of the not practitioners assumes pejorative, indicating low auto-esteem. Images positively associated to the word body were: pretty, elegant, strong, normal, white, great, good, beautiful and slender in contrast to ugly, fat, little fat, relaxed and strange, which were related to aspects considered negative. All positive associations were pointed by practitioners of physical exercises. It was found that 29% of the interviewed group presents indicators and/or possibilities to present a diabulimia picture.