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. 2018 Mar 22;6:5. doi: 10.1186/s40337-018-0189-z

Table 3.

Means (and standard deviations) on body mass index (BMI), self-harm (DSHI-9r), body esteem-appearance (BEAA), and SDQ measures of psychological difficulties, hyperactivity/ inattention, emotional symptoms, peer problems, and conduct problems for the clusters at T2, and comparison by one-way ANOVA

Cluster BMI DSHI-9r BEAA SDQ Total Difficulties Hyperactivity/inattention Emotional symptoms Peer problems Conduct problems
No eating problems 19.88.a (2.74) 2.05a (4.57) 29.96a (6.21) 8.69a (4.46) 3.23a(2.01) 2.65a (1.96) 1.35a,b (1.37) 1.47a (1.43)
Social eating problems 20.25a,b (2.60) 4.26a (7.60) 25.55b,c (6.42) 11.28b,c (4.58) 4.04a,b (2.00) 3.68a,b (2.13) 1.91a,b,c (1.44) 1.64a (1.33)
Fear of not being able to stop eating 20.12a,b (2.75) 2.91a (4.80) 27.25a,b (6.12) 10.23a,b (3.90) 3.79a,b (2.00) 3.52a (2.11) 1.29a (1.26) 1.64a (1.44)
Weight concerns 21.31a,b,c (3.02) 2.66a (6.42) 24.25b,c (5.94) 10.39a,b (3.46) 4.03a,b (1.58) 3.50a (1.86) 1.24a (1.20) 1.63a (1.02)
Multiple eating problems without purging 21.82c (2.91) 5.84a (7.01) 22.52c,d (5.49) 13.36c,d (5.54) 4.43b,c (2.07) 4.76b,c (2.31) 2.17b,c (2.01) 2.00a,b (1.67)
Multiple eating problems including purging 21.52b,c (2.50) 14.47b (16.12) 20.26d (6.21) 15.24d (5.73) 5.18c (2.22) 4.88c (2.32) 2.47c (1.99) 2.48b (1.72)

Means with different superscripts differ significantly, according to post-hoc tests by Tukey HSD