Table 1.
Responses to the questions in the vignettes about a young woman with symptoms of an eating disorder
|
Eating
Disorder |
Caucasian n(%) |
African American n(%) |
Asian n(%) |
Hispanic n(%) |
Average (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1. Percent of university students who identified a definite or probable problem (Q1)
| |||||
| AN | 145 (82.4%) | 139 (87.4%) | 122 (84.1%) | 153 (86.0%) | 85.0% |
| BN | 83 (47.2%) | 88 (54.7%) | 70 (47.3%) | 95 (53.4%) | 50.7% |
| BED | 107(60.8%) | 104 (64.6%) | 95 (64.2%) | 124 (69.7%) | 64.8% |
|
| |||||
|
2. Percent of university students who identified a definite or probable eating
disorder in the vignette (Q2) * | |||||
| AN | 57 (39.3%) | 57 (41.0%) | 50 (41.0%) | 70 (45.8%) | 41.8% |
| BN | 39 (50.0%) | 28 (42.4%) | 26 (57.8%) | 28 (45.2%) | 48.9% |
| BED | 31 (29.0%) | 25 (24.0%) | 22 (23.2%) | 26 (21.0%) | 24.3% |
|
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|
3. Percent of university students who identified a definite or probable necessity
of health care referral (Q3) | |||||
| AN | 132 (75.0%) | 126 (78.3%) | 104 (77.0%) | 139 (78.1%) | 77.1% |
| BN | 57 (32.4%) | 55 (34.2%) | 60 (40.5%) | 76 (42.7%) | 37.5% |
| BED | 87 (49.4%) | 90 (55.9%) | 86.1 (58.1%) | 112 (62.9%) | 56.5% |
*
Frequency distribution of participants who identified a “definite” or “probable” problem in Q1.