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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2014 Oct 27;48(6):663–669. doi: 10.1002/eat.22359

Table 2.

Odds ratio (95% CI) of eating disorder variable by media use characteristic.

Eating Disorder Variable
BELIEVE YOU ARE FAT WHEN OTHERS THINK YOU ARE TOO THIN? MAKE YOURSELF SICK BECAUSE YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLY FULL? RECENTLY LOST > 6.35KG IN A 3-MONTH PERIOD? WORRY YOU LOST CONTROL OVER HOW MUCH YOU EAT? WOULD YOU SAY THAT FOOD DOMINATES YOUR LIFE?
Unadjusted Adjusted* Unadjusted Adjusted* Unadjusted Adjusted* Unadjusted Adjusted* Unadjusted Adjusted*
Media use characteristic
Child (12≤age<18)
 Access to Internet? +(yes) 1.5 (0.7, 3.5) 1.1 (0.4, 2.9) 2.1 (0.8, 5.5) 1.6 (0.5, 5.1) 4.2 (1.6, 10.9) 4.0 (1.4, 11.9)
 Average hours television/day 1.1 (0.8, 1.5) 1.2 (0.8, 1.6) 1.0 (0.6, 1.5) 0.9 (0.6, 1.4) 1.0 (0.7, 1.4) 1.0 (0.7, 1.5)
Adult (18≤age)
 Access to Internet? (yes) 1.9 (1.2, 3.1) 2.8 (1.6, 4.9) 1.0 (0.2, 5.7) 0.7 (0.2, 2.4) 3.2 (1.7, 5.7) 4.8 (2.3, 9.8) 2.6 (1.5, 4.4) 2.3 (1.2, 4.3)
 Average hours television/day 0.9 (0.8, 1.1) 0.9 (0.8, 1.1) 1.3 (0.9, 1.9) 0.7 (0.4, 1.3) 1.1 (0.9, 1.3) 1.1 (0.9, 1.3) 0.9 (0.7, 1.1) 0.9 (0.7, 1.1)
Adultswith Internet access
 Internet (in hrs) 1.1 (0.8, 1.5) 1.1 (0.8, 1.6) 1.2 (0.8, 1.7) 1.2 (0.9 - 1.8) 0.9 (0.6, 1.4) 0.9 (0.6, 1.4)

Note: All p-values adjusted with the method of false discovery rate (fdr). Bold formatting indicates pfdr<0.05.

*

Confounders include age of participant, BMI and urbanization index in 2009

Note(2): Missing cells indicate absence of analysis due to low frequency of response for eating disorder variable