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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Health. 2011;59(8):700–707. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2010.546461

TABLE 2.

Prevalence of Eating Disorder Symptoms

Undergraduates
Graduates
White, non-Hispanic
Black, non-Hispanic
Asian/Asian American
F M All F M All F M All F M All F M All
N 674 494 1,168 815 839 1,654 910 780 1,690 79 42 121 291 339 630
Positive screen (3+ on SCOFF) 13.5 3.6 9.4 9.3 3.1 5.8 11.9 3.2 7.3 9.0 0.0 4.9 11.3 3.0 6.5
Individual SCOFF items
 Do you make yourself sick because you feel uncomfortably full? 13.7 4.3 9.0 11.9 7.3 9.4 14.0 5.2 9.4 7.3 3.4 5.5 14.1 8.0 10.0
 Do you worry you have lost control over how much you eat? 26.4 8.4 17.3 24.0 10.0 16.3 27.3 8.9 7.7 16.7 2.5 10.3 21.9 9.2 4.5
 Have you recently lost more than 14 pounds in a 3 month period? 4.9 5.2 5.0 4.1 3.7 4.9 4.7 4.7 4.7 7.2 6.7 7.0 3.2 3.0 3.1
 Do you believe yourself to be fat when others say you are thin? 33.8 9.2 21.5 24.2 11.6 17.2 31.1 10.3 20.2 17.9 12.8 15.6 28.4 8.2 16.7
 Would you say that food dominates your life? 16.8 7.1 11.9 14.1 5.0 9.0 16.0 5.2 10.3 9.9 3.6 7.0 15.5 7.2 10.7
Previous ED diagnosis (any) 3.2 0.1 1.7 4.6 0.5 2.3 5.1 0.4 2.7 2.0 0.0 1.1 1.2 0.5 0.8
 Anorexia nervosa 2.2 0.1 1.2 2.7 0.3 1.4 3.4 0.3 1.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.2 0.4
 Bulimia nervosa 1.7 0.0 0.9 2.1 0.0 0.9 2.5 0.0 1.2 2.0 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Previous ED diagnosis, among positive screens 5.4 0.0 4.3 14.0 6.2 11.7 9.4 5.6 8.5 22.4 n/a 22.4 4.7 0.0 3.5

Note. All results are expressed in % points and adjusted by response propensity weights.