Table 2.

SCAN Section 9 (Item Level Symptoms of Eating Disorders)

	Study I			Study II
	Patients	Controls	P	Patients	Controls	P
No.	60	120		32	32
Dread of becoming fat	62%	8%	<0.001	78%	31%	<0.001
Earlier episode of undereating	13%	5%	0.074	22%	16%	0.75
Irresistible and persistent craving for food	67%	5%	<0.001	66%	13%	<0.001
Earlier episode of overeating	42%	5%	<0.001	50%	22%	0.036
Self-perception of fatness w/ intrusive dread of becoming too fat	33%	1%	<0.001	38%	22%	0.274
Imposes low weight threshold	5%	0%	0.036	13%	3%	0.355
Avoidance of fattening foods	45%	3%	<0.001	53%	34%	0.207
Actions to lose weight through self restriction	42%	2%	<0.001	43%	13%	0.011
Actions to lose weight through purgation	3%	1%	0.258	9%	0%	0.24
Binge eating w/ sense of lack of control
None	45%	99%	<0.001*	31%	78%	0.002*
Binges but retains control	12%	0%		13%	13%
Binges infrequently w/ feeling of loss of control	18%	1%		28%	9%
Binges twice a week, w/ a feeling of lack of control	20%	0%		16%	0%
Binges more frequently w/ a feeling of loss of control	5%	0%		9%	0%
Dread of getting too fat in spite of craving	30%	0%	<0.001	28%	0%	0.002
Actions to correct binging through purgation	7%	0%	0.012	6%	3%	1.000
Restrictive actions to correct binging	18%	0%	<0.001	25%	0%	0.005

^*χ² test. SCAN refers to Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry.