Table 1.
Demographic characteristics by eating disorder diagnostic category at initial assessment
| BED N=50 |
RBE N=50 |
P1 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 36.4 (7.3) | 38.6 (8.3) | 0.158 |
| Body Mass Index | 33.4 (6.1) | 30.9 (5.7) | 0.037 |
| Education: some college or more | 82.0% | 80.0% | 0.799 |
| White | 100% | 97.9% | 0.310 |
| Hispanic | 2.0% | 6.0% | 0.307 |
| Beck Depression Inventory | 21.0 (8.3) | 17.5 (6.6) | 0.022 |
| Number of comorbid axis 1 disorders | |||
| 0 | 36.0% | 42.0% | 0.041 |
| 1 | 24.0% | 40.0% | |
| 2+ | 40.0% | 18.0% | |
| Number of days with an objective bulimic episode in the past 28 days | 15.0 (7.1) | 9.0 (5.9) | NA2 |
| Number of objective bulimic episodes in the past 28 days | 17.9 (11.7) | 11.8 (11.9) | NA |
BED, Binge Eating Disorder; RBE, Recurrent Binge Eating Disorder (minimum average number of one day per week during the preceding 3 months with an objective bulimic episode with no gaps between episodes of two weeks or more); BMI, body mass index.
Values in parentheses are standard deviations.
1
2-way comparison between BED and RBE using t-test (continuous measure) or Chi-Square (dichotomous measures).
2
Used to construct RBE and BED diagnostic categories.