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@article{186201,
        author = {Dennis T Varghese},
        title = {Association Between Demographic Variables and Knowledge of Binge Eating Disorder Among School Students},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {6},
        pages = {151-159},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=186201},
        abstract = {This study investigates how demographic variables—specifically socioeconomic status, age, and gender—predict knowledge of Binge Eating Disorder (BED) among school students. Using simulated data from a sample of 300 students across varied socioeconomic backgrounds, we applied multiple linear regression, ANOVA, and nonparametric analysis to test the structural relationship between demographic location and disorder-specific knowledge acquisition. The results indicate a pronounced stratification: BED knowledge increases significantly with age and socioeconomic status but shows no significant variance across gender categories. These findings challenge dominant narratives that gender is the primary axis of eating disorder awareness and instead underscore the critical role of class-based access to mental health literacy. Figures and tables demonstrate not only the statistical weight of socioeconomic positioning but also the compression of knowledge among lower-SES students—both in average scores and variability. The paper argues that public health discourse must reconceptualize BED knowledge as a distributed resource, not an individual attribute, and that meaningful intervention demands structural redistribution, not just informational outreach. The epistemic terrain of BED is not neutral; it is built, maintained, and gatekept by systems far beyond student agency.},
        keywords = {Binge Eating Disorder; Mental Health Literacy; Socioeconomic Status; Educational Inequality; Youth Psychopathology},
        month = {October},
        }