Table 1. Descriptive statistics and comparison between ICA-patients and controls.

			ICA-patients (N = 32)			Healthy controls (N = 36)			Group comparison
			mean	SD	N	mean	SD	N	p-value
	Age		30.50	7.65		29.33	6.57		n.s.*
	Sex	Female			22			21	n.s.+
		Male			10			15
Ingestion	Size in cm		170.75	9.52		173.60	9.24		n.s.*
	Weight in kg		69.73	12.60		69.94	14.22		n.s.*
	Body mass index		23.81	3.25		23.10	3.71		n.s.*
	Breast-fed	No			7			6	n.s.+
		Yes			25			29
	Components of preferred food		1.43	.69		1.23	.43		n.s.*
	Eating behavior		2.21	.54		2.26	.47		n.s.#
Environ-mental hazards	household accidents		2.02	.52		1.51	.42		<0.001#
	Washing behavior		2.25	.65		2.16	.66		n.s.#
	Frequency of showering	More than daily			0			1	n.s.#
		Daily			16			24
		Every two days			10			8
		More than weekly			4			3
		Weekly			1			0
		Rarely			1			0
Social behavior and communication	Partnership status	Married			8			1	n.s.+
		Divorced			2			2
		Single			10			17
		Engaged			12			16
		widowed			0			0
	Satisfaction with partnership								n.s.#
	Number of children		.53	.80		.33	.79		n.s.*
	Age of first sexual intercourse		18.10	2.65		19.00	4.76		n.s.*
	Sexual satisfaction		1.76	0.76		1.73	0.81		n.s.#
	Number of sexual relationships		3.34	3.89		6.2	7.00		0.048*
	BBE-Questionnaire	Security mother	4.06	.90		4.38	.62		n.s.*
		Security partner	4.31	.63		4.64	.36		n.s.*
		Dependency mother	2.01	.63		1.96	.60		n.s.*
		Dependency partner	2.85	.61		2.82	.45		n.s.*
	social worries		2.18	.51		1.49	.36		<0.001#
Depression	BDI-Questionnaire		10.47	9.38		4.63	6.61		0.014*

Significant differences have been raised for the components of preferred food, household accidents, the age of the first sexual intercourse, social worries and depression.

Note:

^*… t-test;

⁺… Chi-Square-Test;

^#… Mann-Whitney-test. Bonferroni-Correction was applied for p-values within the BBE-Questionnaire.