Word: alegria
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...done a lot of previous work looking at the comparisons between ethnic groups and eating disorders,” said Margarita Alegria, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research at the Cambridge Health Alliance...
...Alegria, who was the principal investigator of the project, said she and her group first sent in the proposal to do the study eight years...
...There was a lot of literature from people suggesting that certain variables played a role in certain Latino community samples,” Alegria said. “But not a lot had been done on the different Latino groups...
...Alegria described the data collection for the project as a “huge endeavor,” as the team subcontracted the actual collection through the University of Michigan...
...Alegria said the study was definitely merited given the seriousness of binge eating as a health risk...