Table 3.

Economic cost of eating disorders in 2015

	Eating disorders			Anorexia nervosa			Bulimia nervosa			Other eating disorders
Classification	Male	Female	Sub total	Male	Female	Sub total	Male	Female	Sub total	Male	Female	Sub total
Direct costs
Direct medical costs	246,792	2,572,075	2,818,867	91,585	1,037,569	1129 154	31,420	737,817	769,237	123,786	796,690	920,476
Direct non-medical costs
Transportation cost for hospital visits	11,492	84,283	95,776	4402	20,806	25,208	1275	27,047	28,322	5815	36,430	42,245
Caregiver cost	79,798	405,167	484,965	44,865	213,194	258,059	5964	67,603	73,568	28,969	124,370	153,339
Total direct costs	338,082	3,061,526	3,399,608	140,852	1,271,569	1,412,421	38,660	832,467	871,127	158,570	957,490	1,116,060
Indirect costs-2	453,177	1,602,841	2,056,018	132,185	353,510	485,694	18,772	328,218	346,991	302,220	921,113	1,223,333
Total costs	791,259	4,664,367	5,455,626	273,037	1,625,078	1,898,115	57,432	1,160,686	1,218,118	460,790	1,878,602	2,339,393

Note. Exchange rate US dollar: 1 Korean won = 1132 US dollar from the Bank of Korea (http://ecos.bok.or.kr/); For indirect costs-2, productivity loss from the absence from work due to hospital admission and outpatient visits were included