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Table 3 Rates of eating disorder symptoms, suicidality, treatment-seeking intentions, and current treatment status by probable eating disorder diagnostic/risk category

From: Prevalence, characteristics, and correlates of probable avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder among adult respondents to the National Eating Disorders Association online screen: a cross-sectional study

 

ARFID

AN

BN

BED

PD

UFED

At risk

Low/No risk

Significance

Pairwise Comparisons

Weight/shape concernsa, M (SD)

24.1 (12.5)

78.2 (15.1)

78.3 (13.4)

72.2 (15.2)

81.5 (17.3)

61.8 (21.2)

65.0 (16.1)

28.2 (13.6)

p < 0.001, η2 =0 .44

AN, BN, BED, PD, UFED, at risk, low/no risk > ARFID

Binge eating, M (SD)

0.2 (0.6)

6.54 (18.3)

24.0 (30.4)

30.3 (33.1)

0.0 (0.0)

9.6 (21.5)

0.5 (0.8)

0.5 (1.6)

p < 0.001, η2 = 0.16

AN, BN, BED, UFED > ARFID

Vomiting, M (SD)

0.0 (0.2)

9.7 (38.7)

8.0 (24.4)

0.1 (0.3)

32.1 (94.2)

1.1 (6.7)

0.0 (0.2)

0.1 (1.2)

p < 0.001, η2 = 0.07

AN, BN, PD > ARFID

Laxative/diuretic use, M (SD)

0.0 (0.2)

6.7 (19.5)

5.0 (18.4)

0.0 (0.2)

25.0 (40.1)

0.8 (5.6)

0.1 (0.3)

0.0 (0.2)

p < 0.01, η2 = 0.10

AN, BN, PD > ARFID

Fasting, M (SD)

0.1 (0.3)

14.6 (25.3)

10.0 (17.9)

0.1 (0.4)

17.5 (27.0)

6.1 (15.7)

0.2 (0.5)

0.1 (0.8)

p < 0.001, η2 = 0.09

AN, BN, PD, UFED > ARFID

Excessive exercise, M (SD)

0.1 (0.3)

15.2 (28.0)

9.7 (19.5)

0.1 (0.3)

17.1 (28.9)

5.8 (16.8)

0.1 (0.4)

0.1 (0.8)

p < .001, η2 = .08

AN, BN, PD, UFED > ARFID

BMI, M (SD)

21.4 (5.4)

17.1 (1.3)

29.1 (8.6)

35.1 (9.7)

24.9 (6.3)

28.1 (8.9)

27.1 (8.7)

25.5 (6.6)

p < 0.001, η2 = 0.16

BN, BED, UFED > ARFID > AN

Dietary restrictionb, n (%)

610 (25.7%)

2273 (100%)

7859 (52.7%)

1197 (16.4%)

736 (84.8%)

6867 (45.3%)

1983 (41.3%)

175 (7.4%)

p < 0.001, V = 0.40

AN, BN, PD, UFED, at risk > ARFID > BED, low/no risk

Suicidal ideation, n (%)

830 (34.9%)

1285 (56.5%)

6814 (45.7%)

2275 (31.2%)

476 (54.8%)

5357 (35.3%)

1366 (28.5%)

200 (8.4%)

p < 0.001, V = 0.20

AN, BN, PD > ARFID > BED, at risk, low/no risk

Treatment-seeking intentions, n (%)

25 (47.2%)

16 (34.0%)

152 (55.1%)

70 (66.7%)

6 (46.2%)

128 (46.4%)

35 (35.0%)

–

p < 0.05, V = 0.19

BN, BED > ARFID > AN, PD, UFED, at risk

Currently in treatment, n (%)

57 (2.4%)

134 (5.9%)

415 (2.8%)

157 (2.2%)

61 (7.0%)

409 (2.7%)

114 (2.4%)

–

p < 0.01, V = 0.06

AN, PD > ARFID

  1. Eating disorder behaviors refer to frequency of behaviors over the past 3 months
  2. aThe possible range of scores on the Weight Concerns Scale was 0–100
  3. bThe dietary restriction item in this study assessed dietary restriction for weight/shape reasons