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Table 3 Participant (and non-participant) demographics at first specialist contact

From: “I’m truly free from my eating disorder”: Emerging adults’ experiences of FREED, an early intervention service model and care pathway for eating disorders

 

FREED-UP participants with experience data (interview and/or questionnaire)

(N = 106)

FREED-Up participants with experience data (interview)

(N = 14)

FREED-Up participants with no experience data

(N = 172)

Age (M ± SD)

20.75 ± 2.56*

20.86 ± 1.99

19.84 ± 2.20*

DUED (M ± SD)

18.62 ± 10.69

21.50 ± 10.55

17.36 ± 10.18

BMI (M ± SD)

20.06 ± 4.63

18.87 ± 3.23

20.11 ± 4.33

EDE-Q score (M ± SD)

4.16 ± 1.10

4.53 ± 0.72*

4.03 ± 1.28*

Gender (% female)

92.5%

93%

93.6%

ED Diagnosis

 AN

38.7%

35.7%

44.2%

 BN

31.1%

35.7%

22.7%

 BED

0.9%

7.1%

1.2%

 OSFED

29.2%

21.4%

32.0%

Ethnicity

 White

71.7%

71.4%

61.0%

 Asian

6.6%

0%

11.6%

 Black

1.9%

0%

5.2%

 Mixed

4.7%

14.3%

8.7%

 Other / Unspecified

9.4%

14.3%

10.3%

Occupation

 Student

58.3%

50.0%

67.9%

 Employed

35.9%

50.0%

20.8%

 Unemployed

5.8%

0.0%

11.3%

Living Situation

 With family

42.5%

35.7%

58.7%

 With friends / in halls

35.8%

50.0%

27.9%

 With partner

5.7%

0.0%

4.1%

 Alone

4.7%

0.0%

5.2%

 Other / Unspecified

11.3%

14.3%

4.1%

Treatment

 Completion rate

84.9%

92.9%

57.6%

 No. of sessions (M ± SD)

23.27 ± 12.87*

24.71 ± 10.36*

15.77 ± 11.63*

  1. Asterisk indicates that these figures were significantly different at p < 0.05
  2. Abbreviations: AN anorexia nervosa, BED binge eating disorders, BMI body mass index, BN bulimia nervosa, DUED duration of untreated eating disorder, EDE-Q Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, M mean, OSFED other specified feeding and eating disorder, SD standard deviation