Table 5.

The reported need of both matched and unmatched mentees

Topic	% Endorsing need
1. Dealing with triggers from family and environment	17
2. Managing or reducing eating disorder thought and behaviors	14
3. Finding enough quality support services	19
4. Lack of access to professional treatment	14
5. Lack of willingness to seek treatment	11
6. Lack of understanding or support from family and friends	11
7. Support offered by family and friends isn’t what is needed	12
8. Managing relationships with peers, family, friends, colleagues, society	17
9. Asking for and accepting help from others	18
10. Choosing who to ask for help	15
11. Managing relapses	18
12. Body dissatisfaction and poor body image	20
13. Setting and working towards recovery goals	18
14. Dealing with weight stabilization	22
15. Following a meal plan	22
16. Grocery shopping/eating out/food-based socializing	22
17. Learning to name, feel, and deal with emotions	24
18. Finding time for recovery amidst other obligations	20
19. Setting and honoring boundaries	13
20. Choosing recovery	14
21. Finding reasons to recover	16
22. Using my voice and expressing needs, wants, desires, and boundaries	16
23. Staying motivated and committed to doing the hard work of recovery	12
24. Intimacy and relationship challenges, fears, and issues	19
25. Finding and expressing preferences, skills, talents, and identity outside of “Ed”	17
26. Building meaning and quality of life into the recovery process	20
27. Other co-occurring recovery issues with addiction, trauma, abuse, self-harm, depression, anxiety, etc.	23

N=107.