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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2015 Sep 14;48(8):1150–1157. doi: 10.1002/eat.22465

Table 1.

Distribution and associated sociodemographic features of overeating categories by gender

Girls Boys

No overeating
% (n)
Overeating without loss of control
% (n)
Binge eating
% (n)
p-value No overeating
% (n)
Overeating without loss of control
% (n)
Binge eating
% (n)
p-value
83.6 (1229) 6.9 (101) 9.6 (141) 88.8 (1145) 5.0 (64) 6.3 (81)

Episode frequency distributions n % % % n % % %

Nearly every day 34 --- 12.9 14.9 21 --- 11.1 17.3
A few times a week 58 --- 8.9 34.8 38 --- 15.9 34.6
A few times a month 63 --- 22.8 28.4 38 --- 20.6 30.9
< once a month 87 --- 55.5 22.0 47 --- 52.4 17.3

Sociodemographic variable n % % % n % % %

Race
 White 246 80.9 10.2 8.9 0.08 275 93.5 2.2 4.4 0.01
 Black 423 85.3 6.4 8.3 374 89.3 4.8 5.9
 Asian-American 251 87.3 4.8 8.0 212 89.6 3.8 6.6
 Hispanic 293 78.8 8.5 12.6 358 82.2 9.3 8.5
 Mixed/Other 252 84.5 4.8 10.7 168 88.7 4.8 6.6
Age
 ≤12 284 84.2 8.5 7.4 0.60 242 90.1 5.8 4.1 0.73
 13–14 502 83.7 7.2 9.2 393 87.3 5.3 7.4
 15–16 449 83.3 5.8 10.9 388 89.2 4.4 6.4
 ≥17 236 83.1 6.4 10.6 267 89.1 4.5 6.4
SES
 Low 630 82.9 6.2 11.0 0.43 438 85.3 6.1 8.6 0.02
 Low-middle 305 84.9 6.2 8.9 280 87.2 5.0 7.9
 Middle 238 85.7 6.7 7.6 229 91.7 3.9 4.4
 Upper-middle 166 80.1 11.5 8.4 178 94.9 1.7 3.4
 High 87 83.9 6.9 9.2 115 93.0 4.4 2.6
Weight status
 Non-overweight 888 86.4 5.7 7.9 <0.01 739 92.0 3.8 4.2 <0.01
 Overweight 238 82.0 7.8 10.3 200 89.5 6.0 4.5
 Obese 279 76.3 9.7 14.0 326 81.0 7.1 12.0

Note: SES=socioeconomic status; non-overweight=body mass index<85th percentile; overweight=85th percentile≤body mass index<95th percentile; obese=body mass index≥95 percentile (body mass index=kg/m2). Numbers may vary slightly due to missing values for specific variables.