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. 2021 Apr 22;54(7):1213–1223. doi: 10.1002/eat.23517

TABLE 2.

Demographic characteristics of pre‐COVID‐19 and COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home cohort

Pre‐COVID‐19 cohort (n = 222) COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home cohort (n = 357) Test statistics
n M (SD) n M (SD)
Age 214 22.8 (6.5) 349 21.1 (4.2) t (325.3) = 3.29, p < .01, 95% CI = .66, 2.62, d = −.31
BMI 221 25.2 (6.4) 353 25.0 (5.6) t (572) = .48, p = .62, 95% CI = −.74, 1.28, d = .03
n % n %
Gender Fisher's exact test = 1.97, p = .37, Cramer's V = .06
Male 55 25.0 73 20.4
Female 161 73.2 279 78.2
Other gender identity 4 1.8 5 1.4
Ethnicity χ 2 (1) = .80, p = .88, ψ = −.01
Hispanic 19 8.6 33 9.2
Non‐Hispanic 203 91.4 324 90.8
Race Fisher's exact test = 7.29, p = .19, Cramers's V = .11
White 178 80.2 309 86.6
Black or African American 12 5.4 8 2.2
American Indian or Alaskan native 3 1.4 3 0.8
Asian or Pacific islander 16 7.2 16 4.5
Multiracial 11 5.0 19 5.3
Did not indicate 2 0.9 2 0.6
Eating disorder diagnosis χ 2 (1) = 1.0, p = .34, ψ = .04
Any eating disorder diagnosis 82 37.3 146 41.5
No diagnosis 138 62.7 206 58.5
Eating disorder diagnoses Fisher's exact test = 2.43, p = .69, Cramer's V = .07
Anorexia nervosa 1 0.5 3 0.9
Bulimia nervosa 30 13.6 45 12.8
Binge‐eating disorder 6 2.7 8 2.3
Other specified feeding or eating disorder 45 20.3 90 25.6

Note: Percentages are reported using total for each cohort (pre‐COVID‐19 or COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home) as the denominator.