|
Question
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Response
|
Count
|
N %
|
|
Do you often feel that you cannot control the quality or quantity of the food you eat?
|
No
|
152
|
40.1%
|
|
Yes
|
227
|
59.9%
|
|
Do you eat during any two-hour period an amount of food that most people find large and unusual?
|
No
|
259
|
68.3%
|
|
Yes
|
120
|
31.7%
|
|
If you answered yes to one of the previous two questions, did this happen again approximately twice a week during the last three months?
|
No
|
128
|
41.7%
|
|
Yes
|
179
|
58.3%
|
|
In the last three months, have you often done any of the following in order to avoid gaining weight?
|
Made yourself vomit
|
34
|
16.8%
|
|
Took more than twice the recommended dose of laxatives?
|
20
|
9.9%
|
|
Fasted – have not eaten anything at all for at least 24 hours?
|
111
|
55.0%
|
|
Exercised for more than an hour specifically to avoid gaining weight after binge eating?
|
93
|
46.0%
|
|
If you checked “YES” to any of these ways of avoiding gaining weight, were any as often, on average, as twice a week?
|
No
|
108
|
47.4%
|
|
Yes
|
120
|
52.6%
|
|
How difficult is this problem for you when doing your work, studying, performing your responsibilities at home, or getting along with people?
|
There is no difficulty at all
|
105
|
38.3%
|
|
Somewhat difficult
|
95
|
34.7%
|
|
Very difficult
|
49
|
17.9%
|
|
Unbearably difficult
|
25
|
9.1%
|
