Table 2.
Frequency of disordered eating behaviors and diagnoses among those with complete exposure and at least two outcome measurements available and in each wave of data collection overall.
| Disordered eating behaviors (occurring at least monthly) |
Eating Disorder diagnoses |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any n(%) | Dieting n(%) | Fasting n(%) | Binge eating n(%) | Purging n(%) | AN n(%) | BN n(%) | BED n(%) | |
| Prevalence among children included in our sample (n = 3,480) | ||||||||
| Age 14 | 224 (7.47%) | 118 (3.94%) | 69 (2.30%) | 62 (2.07%) | 18 (0.60%) | 5 (0.18%) | 11 (0.37%) | 14 (0.47%) |
| N = 2,998 | ||||||||
| Age 16 | 374 (14.7%) | 156 (6.13%) | 145 (5.74%) | 146 (5.74%) | 87 (3.42%) | 20 (0.86%) | 23 (0.90%) | 22 (0.86%) |
| N = 2,545 | ||||||||
| Age 18 | 313 (18.21%) | 130 (7.56%) | 92 (5.35%) | 143 (8.32%) | 76 (4.42%) | 13 (0.82%) | 29 (1.69%) | 23 (1.34%) |
| N = 1,719 | ||||||||
| Prevalence among children with data available at each follow-up point | ||||||||
| Age 14 | 448 (7.98%) | 226 (4.03%) | 154 (2.74%) | 123 (2.19%) | 37 (0.66%) | 10 (0.21%) | 25 (0.45%) | 25 (0.45%) |
| N = 5,611 | ||||||||
| Age 16 | 740 (15.82%) | 310 (6.63%) | 280 (5.99%) | 281 (6.01%) | 179 (3.83%) | 34 (0.85%) | 48 (1.03%) | 44 (0.94%) |
| N = 4,678 | ||||||||
| Age 18 | 585 (18.65%) | 261 (8.31%) | 172 (5.48%) | 256 (8.15%) | 147 (4.68%) | 20 (0.73%) | 49 (1.56%) | 46 (1.46%) |
| N = 3,140 | ||||||||