Table 2.
| Frequency, n (%) |
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| Domain | Themes | Total Sample | Anorexia Nervosa | Bulimia Nervosa |
| Health | Eating disorder, eating disorder–related symptoms | 32 (59) | 11 (46) | 21 (68) |
| Health is at risk, poor | 6 (11) | 3 (12) | 3 (10) | |
| No energy | 5 (9) | 3 (12) | 2 (6) | |
| Self esteem | Low self-esteem | 26 (46) | 14 (54) | 12 (40) |
| Self-critical/perfectionism | 11 (20) | 3 (12) | 8 (27) | |
| Body image | 7 (13) | 3 (12) | 4 (13) | |
| Goals and values | Eating disorder, health interferes with goals | 16 (39) | 10 (40) | 6 (38) |
| Afraid to fail at goals | 11 (27) | 9 (36) | 2 (12) | |
| Hard to make goals/don’t have goals | 6 (15) | 2 (8) | 4 (25) | |
| Money | Want/need more money | 15 (34) | 8 (36) | 7 (32) |
| Not enough money due to eating disorder | 11 (25) | 5 (23) | 6 (27) | |
| Trouble budgeting/anxiety around money | 7 (16) | 3 (13) | 4 (18) | |
| Work | Interpersonal conflicts/issues | 11 (27) | 5 (23) | 6 (32) |
| Eating disorder prevents work | 9 (22) | 5 (23) | 4 (21) | |
| Stress/anxiety/perfectionism | 7 (17) | 4 (18) | 3 (16) | |
| Play | Hard to play, don’t play | 15 (31) | 6 (23) | 9 (41) |
| Isolate self | 9 (19) | 6 (23) | 3 (14) | |
| No time because of eating disorder | 9 (19) | 4 (15) | 5 (23) | |
| Learning | Trouble focusing | 17 (47) | 7 (39) | 10 (56) |
| Want to learn more | 9 (25) | 6 (33) | 3 (17) | |
| Eating disorder interferes | 8 (22) | 4 (22) | 4 (22) | |
| Creativity | I am not creative | 11 (32) | 6 (38) | 5 (28) |
| I am creative | 6 (18) | 3 (19) | 3 (17) | |
| No energy for creativity | 5 (15) | 2 (13) | 3 (17) | |
| Helping | Want to help more | 13 (45) | 6 (43) | 7 (47) |
| Enjoy helping | 6 (21) | 4 (29) | 2 (13) | |
| Help too much | 4 (14) | 2 (14) | 2 (13) | |
| Love | Isolate self | 11 (37) | 5 (33) | 6 (40) |
| Low self-esteem | 7 (23) | 2 (13) | 5 (33) | |
| Happy in relationship | 5 (17) | 4 (27) | 1 (7) | |
| Friends | Isolate, don’t have friends | 23 (52) | 8 (38) | 15 (65) |
| Don’t see friends | 5 (11) | 3 (14) | 2 (9) | |
| No time/energy for friends | 3 (7) | 2 (10) | 1 (4) | |
| Children | No kids, would like to have kids | 16 (48) | 5 (33) | 11 (61) |
| Fear can’t have kids because of eating disorder | 6 (18) | 4 (27) | 2 (11) | |
| Don’t want kids or ambivalent | 5 (15) | 4 (27) | 1 (5) | |
| Relatives | Problems with family, don’t see family | 26 (59) | 11 (50) | 15 (68) |
| Eating disorder affects relationships | 9 (20) | 6 (27) | 3 (14) | |
| Family causes stress | 5 (11) | 4 (18) | 1 (5) | |
| Home | Dislike home for various reasons | 10 (26) | 7 (37) | 3 (15) |
| Problems in family home | 7 (18) | 1 (5) | 6 (30) | |
| No stable home | 7 (18) | 3 (16) | 4 (20) | |
| Neighborhood | Like neighborhood | 9 (41) | 5 (45) | 4 (36) |
| Dislike neighborhood | 7 (32) | 2 (18) | 5 (45) | |
| Lack of peers | 3 (14) | 1 (9) | 2 (18) | |
| Community | Like community | 11 (42) | 6 (43) | 5 (42) |
| Dislike community, stated problems | 10 (38) | 5 (36) | 5 (42) | |
| Lack of involvement | 4 (15) | 2 (14) | 2 (16) | |
a
Full table can be made available upon request.
b
Total sample: N = 48, anorexia nervosa: n = 24, and bulimia nervosa: n = 24.