Adolescent risk factors for purging in young women: findings from the national longitudinal study of adolescent health

Stephen, Eric M; Rose, Jennifer; Kenney, Lindsay; Rosselli-Navarra, Francine; Weissman, Ruth Striegel

doi:10.1186/2050-2974-2-1

Journal of Eating Disorders

Table 2 Association of risk and protective factors with likelihood of purging at Waves II and III

From: Adolescent risk factors for purging in young women: findings from the national longitudinal study of adolescent health

Variable	Purging behavior	Coefficient	Std. error	p-value	CI
Weight perception (Likert)	Wave II	1.01	0.37	0.01	0.28, 1.74
	Wave III	0.54	0.49	0.27	-0.42, 1.50
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.47	0.60	0.44	-1.65, 0.72
Body mass index	Wave II	0.09	0.03	0.00	0.03, 0.14
	Wave III	0.09	0.04	0.02	0.01, 0.16
	Wave III - Wave II	0.00	0.05	0.99	-0.09, 0.09
Diet pill use	Wave II	1.16	0.97	0.24	-0.76, 3.08
	Wave III	1.24	1.06	0.25	-0.86, 3.34
	Wave III - Wave II	0.08	1.40	0.95	-2.68, 2.85
Menses onset < age 11 years	Wave II	0.37	0.47	0.43	-0.56, 1.29
	Wave III	0.13	0.74	0.87	-1.34, 1.60
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.24	0.89	0.79	-1.99, 1.52
Teenage pregnancy	Wave II	-0.83	0.94	0.38	-2.69, 1.04
	Wave III	-0.41	0.95	0.67	-2.28, 1.47
	Wave III - Wave II	0.42	1.34	0.75	-2.22, 3.06
Self-esteem scale	Wave II	-0.22	0.06	0.00	-0.33, -0.11
	Wave III	-0.01	0.09	0.90	-0.20, 0.17
	Wave III - Wave II	0.21	0.10	0.04	0.00, 0.42
Depressive symptoms scale	Wave II	0.12	0.03	0.00	0.07, 0.18
	Wave III	0.09	0.03	0.01	0.02, 0.15
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.04	0.04	0.31	-0.12, 0.04
Attempted suicide	Wave II	1.14	0.47	0.02	0.21, 2.07
	Wave III	0.25	0.66	0.71	-1.05, 1.54
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.90	0.81	0.27	-2.49, 0.70
Had psychological counseling	Wave II	1.05	0.36	0.01	0.33, 1.77
	Wave III	0.25	0.66	0.70	-1.05, 1.56
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.79	0.78	0.31	-2.34, 0.75
Delinquency scale	Wave II	0.25	0.10	0.02	0.04, 0.45
	Wave III	-0.32	0.28	0.26	-0.88, 0.24
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.57	0.29	0.06	-1.15, 0.01
Inattentiveness scale³	Wave II	0.11	0.09	0.23	-0.07, 0.29
	Wave III	0.03	0.14	0.84	-0.25, 0.30
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.08	0.18	0.65	-0.43, 0.27
Hyperactive/impulsive scale³	Wave II	0.15	0.06	0.02	0.03, 0.26
	Wave III	-0.04	0.15	0.80	-0.34, 0.27
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.18	0.17	0.29	-0.53, 0.16
Active coping scale	Wave II	-0.05	0.06	0.41	-0.18, 0.07
	Wave III	-0.08	0.07	0.25	-0.21, 0.06
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.03	0.09	0.77	-0.21, 0.15
Never lived with parent (s)	Wave II	1.42	0.53	0.01	0.37, 2.46
	Wave III	0.38	0.77	0.63	-1.15, 1.91
	Wave III - Wave II	-1.04	0.93	0.27	-2.88, 0.81
Parental poverty	Wave II	0.42	0.19	0.03	0.05, 0.78
	Wave III	-0.14	0.43	0.75	-1.00, 0.71
	Wave III - Wave II	-0.56	0.40	0.17	-1.35, 0.24
Not eating with parent	Wave II	-0.21	0.40	0.60	-1.00, 0.58
	Wave III	0.35	0.49	0.47	-0.61, 1.31
	Wave III - Wave II	0.56	0.66	0.40	-0.75, 1.87
Parent died	Wave II	-0.18	0.64	0.78	-1.44, 1.08
	Wave III	0.49	0.74	0.51	-0.97, 1.95
	Wave III - Wave II	0.66	0.95	0.49	-1.22, 2.54
Childhood neglect³	Wave II	0.46	0.56	0.41	-0.64, 1.56
	Wave III	-0.62	0.84	0.47	-2.29, 1.05
	Wave III - Wave II	-1.08	1.02	0.29	-3.10, 0.94
Childhood physical abuse³	Wave II	-0.42	0.44	0.35	-1.29, 0.45
	Wave III	0.64	0.51	0.21	-0.37, 1.65
	Wave III - Wave II	1.06	0.71	0.14	-0.35, 2.46

Note: All risk factor variables were measured at Wave I except those marked ³; the latter were measured at Wave III via self-reported retrospective recall. Those reported in bold are significant at p<0.05.

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