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Table 2 Outpatient 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

25

32

 

38

35

 

Age (mean (sd*))

14.2 (2.7)

14.6 (1.9)

0.6

25.4 (11.0)

24.1 (9.7)

0.6

Female (n (%))

22 (88%)

32 (100%)

0.08

36 (95%)

34 (97%)

1.0

Ethnicity (n (%))

      

 European

22 (88%)

28 (87%)

 

34 (89%)

33 (94%)

 

 Māori

0

1 (3%)

 

4 (11%)

2 (6%)

 

 Other

4 (16%)

3 (9%)

0.8

1 (3%)

2 (6%)

0.8

Working Diagnosis (n (%))

      

 AN

9 (36%)

14(43.8%)

 

11 (28.9%)

15 (42.9%)

 

 BN

3 (12%)

0

 

7 (18.4%)

5 (12.3%)

 

 EDNOS

10 (40%)

14(43.8%)

 

19 (50%)

13 (37.1%)

 

 Other

3 (12%)

4 (12.5%)

0.4§

1 (7.9%)

2 (5.7%)

0.7§

  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)