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Table 1 Demographic and clinical features of participants at time 1

From: Gender differences in symptom presentation and treatment outcome in children and youths with eating disorders

 

Males (n = 27)

Females (n = 28)

Trans (n = 6)

Treatment location

BC Children’s Hospital: 26

BC Children’s Hospital: 27

BC Children’s Hospital: 5

 

Looking glass: 1

Looking glass: 1

Looking glass: 1

Eating disorder diagnosis at admission

AN-R: 14

AN-R: 14

AN-R: 2

 

AN-BP: 2

BN: 2

AN-BP: 1

 

Unspecified eating disorder: 2

OSFED (Atypical BN): 1

BN: 2

 

ARFID: 9*

Unspecified eating disorder: 3

ARFID: 1

  

ARFID: 8

 

Body image concerns

Yes: 17

Yes: 18

Yes: 5

 

No: 10

No: 10

No: 1

Age

M = 14.23 years, SD = 2.58 (9–18 years)

M = 14.30 years, SD = 2.42 (9–20 years)

M = 16.88 years, SD = 2.62 (14–21 years)

Ethnicity

Caucasian: 15 (55.6%)

Caucasian: 15 (53.6%)

Caucasian: 5 (83.3%)

 

Ethnic minority: 12 (44.4%)

Ethnic minority: 13 (46.4%)

Ethnic minority: 1 (16.7%)

Duration of illness (months)

Median = 9.39, IQR = 27.33 (2.10–159.85)

Median = 7.46, IQR = 11.66 (1.81–72.17)

Median = 11.47, IQR = 45.27 (2.89–94.61)

Symptom measuresa

   

 Eating disorder examination-questionnaire (EDE-Q)

2.41, IQR = 3.00 (0.09–4.81)

2.48, IQR = 3.39 (0.27–5.54)

4.91, IQR = 1.33 (2.14–5.55)

 Male body attitudes scale (MBAS)

   

  Height

6.50, IQR = 5.00 (3.00–13.00)

7.00, IQR = 5.00 (3.00–12.00)

14.00, IQR = 7.75 (5.00–15.00)

  Muscularity

15.00, IQR = 11.75 (7.00–35.00)

16.00, IQR = 9.00 (7.00–29.00)

17.50, IQR = 15.25 (16.00–35.00)

  Body fat

12.50, IQR = 12.80 (5.00–25.00)

13.00, IQR = 11.00 (5.00–25.00)

24.50, IQR = 2.80 (17.00–25.00)

 Obligatory exercise questionnaire (OEQ)

45.50, IQR = 27.25 (23.00–71.00)

41.00, IQR = 33.00 (20.00–75.00)

54.00, IQR = 34.75 (27.00–70.00)

 Body change inventory (BCI)

40.50, IQR = 22.00 (18.00–75.00)

50.00, IQR = 31.00 (18.00–84.00)

55.50, IQR = 14.00 (42.00–68.00)

 Centre for epidemiological studies-depression scale (CES-D)

20.50, IQR = 24.84 (1.00–54.00)

33.00, IQR = 23.00 (0.00–57.00)

43.50, IQR = 14.00 (38.00–52.00)

 Obsessive–compulsive inventory-child version (OCI-CV)

6.00, IQR = 10.00 (0.00–22.00)

16.00, IQR = 16.37 (4.00–30.00)

22.00, IQR = 17.50 (9.00–34.00)

  1. Descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation (for normally distributed variables), and median and interquartile range (for data that was not normally distributed) are reported. Median and interquartile range are presented for symptom measures given non-normal distribution of scores on some measures. The range of scores/values is presented in brackets
  2. *One youth had a diagnosis of ARFID when first admitted to the program, but this diagnosis changed to Anorexia nervosa—restrictive subtype early in the admission, and matching was performed based on diagnosis at the time of matching
  3. aThere were missing data for some measures at Time 1. A total of 26 females completed the EDE-Q, and 27 females completed the remaining measures (MBAS, OEQ, BCI, CES-D, and OCI-CV). A total of 25 males completed the EDE-Q, and OCI-CV, and 26 completed the remaining measures (OEQ, BCI, and CES-D). There were no missing data for trans youth for measures at Time 1
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Journal of Eating Disorders

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