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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2021 Mar 4;29(4):611–621. doi: 10.1002/erv.2823

Table 1.

Baseline descriptives, overall and by childhood abuse history (N = 112)

Full Sample No/Low
Childhood Abuse
Moderate/Severe
Childhood Abuse
p
Lifetime PTSD, % 16.6 10.3 28.5 .02
Childhood abuse, M (SD)
 Emotional abuse CTQ score 9.82 (4.81) 7.05 (2.07) 15.08 (4.10) < .001
 Physical abuse CTQ score 6.37 (2.55) 5.56 (0.92) 7.92 (3.72) < .001
 Sexual abuse CTQ score 6.16 (2.58) 5.22 (0.61) 7.96 (3.72) < .001
ED severity, M (SD)
 Objective binge-eating episode frequency 15.75 (10.73) 15.92 (10.34) 15.42 (11.56) .81
 Global ED psychopathology 2.68 (0.84) 2.68 (0.81) 2.69 (0.90) .96

Note. PTSD = post-traumatic stress disorder; CTQ = Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; M = mean; SD = standard deviation; ED = eating disorder. Moderate/severe childhood abuse was reported by 34.4% of the sample. Possible range for each childhood abuse variable is 5–25; possible range for global ED psychopathology is 0–6.