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Table 1 Inpatient demographics

From: The impact of COVID-19 on eating disorder referrals and admissions in Waikato, New Zealand

 

Children

Adults

2019

2020

p

2019

2020

p

n

13

16

 

24

53

 

Age (mean (sd*))

15.2 (1.7)

14.8 (1.9)

0.5

29.3 (11.5)

26.3 (9.3)

0.3

Female (n (%))

13 (100%)

16 (100%)

1.0

24 (100%)

49 (92%)

0.3

Ethnicity (n (%))

      

 European

13 (100%)

13 (81%)

 

23 (96%)

50 (94%)

 

 Māori

0

2 (13%)

 

1 (4%)

3 (6%)

 

 Other

0

1 (6%)

0.5

0

1 (2%)

1.0

Working Diagnosis (n (%))

      

 AN

11 (85%)

8 (50%)

 

21 (88%)

44 (83%)

 

 BN

0

0

 

1 (4%)

0

 

 EDNOS

0

2 (13%)

 

1 (4%)

4 (8%)

 

 Other

2 (15%)

6 (38%)

0.1‡

1 (4%)

5 (9%)

0.5§

  1. *Standard deviation
  2. Participants identifying dual ethnicities (4 outpatients, 1 inpatient) are counted twice, as per New Zealand census guidelines [25]
  3. Fisher’s exact test with Freeman-Halton extension (2 × 3)
  4. §Fisher’s exact test with Freeman-Halton extension (2 × 4)