Table 1.
Sociodemographics across the BED/obesity and the obesity-only groups.
| Experimental (BED/obesity) n = 79 | Control (obesity-only) n = 96 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | χ2 | p | Phi or V | ||
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | 25 (14.3) | 10 (12.7) | 15 (15.6) | 0.31 | 0.58 | 0.04 | |
| Female | 150 (85.7) | 69 (87.3) | 81 (84.4) | ||||
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| Caucasian | 147 (84.0) | 65 (82.3) | 82 (85.4) | 1.78∗ | 0.89 | 0.10 | |
| Eastern Asian | 14 (8.0) | 7 (8.9) | 7 (7.3) | ||||
| Western Asian | 1 (0.6) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.0) | ||||
| Middle Eastern | 3 (1.7) | 2 (2.5) | 1 (1.0) | ||||
| Other | 10 (5.7) | 5 (6.3) | 5 (5.2) | ||||
| Marital status | |||||||
| Single | 30 (17.1) | 13 (16.5) | 17 (17.7) | 4.07 | 0.57 | 0.15 | |
| Married | 74 (42.3) | 29 (36.7) | 45 (46.9) | ||||
| Divorced or separated | 4 (2.3) | 1 (1.3) | 3 (3.1) | ||||
| In a relationship living together | 46 (26.3) | 24 (30.4) | 22 (22.9) | ||||
| In a relationship not living together | 15 (8.6) | 9 (11.4) | 6 (6.3) | ||||
| Other | 5 (2.9) | 2 (2.5) | 3 (3.1) | ||||
| Profession | 22.45 | 0.03 | 0.36 | ||||
| GP | 13 (7.4) | 1 (1.3) | 12 (12.5) | ||||
| Physician | 73 (41.7) | 37 (46.8) | 36 (37.5) | ||||
| Medical student or registrar | 28 (16) | 10 (12.6) | 18 (18.75) | ||||
| Psychiatrist | 2 (1.1) | 2 (2.5) | 0 (0.0) | ||||
| Nurse | 9 (5.1) | 6 (7.6) | 3 (3.1) | ||||
| Dietitian | 38 (21.7) | 16 (20.3) | 22 (22.9) | ||||
| Allied Health | 12 (6.8) | 6 (7.6) | 6 (6.25) | ||||
‘Allied Health’ refers to other healthcare practitioners with a specialized (non-medical) training. ∗Fisher’s exact test used as at least one cell had a minimum expected count less than 5. Phi values are given as a measure of effect size for 2 × 2 chi square tests and Cramer’s V for all other analyses.