Table 2.

Characteristics of the EAT 2018 participants indicating feasibility of obtaining friend nominations and friend responses.

	EAT 2018 participants		EAT 2018 participants who nominated ≥ 1 friend		EAT 2018 participants with ≥1 friend responding

	N	%	N	%	N	%
Total	1568	100	1126	71.8^a	152	13.5^b
Gender
Men	649	41.4	461	41.1	34	22.4
Women	908	57.9	651	58.0	117	77.0
Different gender	11	0.7	11	1.0	1	0.7
Race/ethnicity
White	366	23.4	318	28.3	41	27.0
Black/Afr. Am.	345	22.1	228	20.3	23	15.1
Hispanic	274	17.5	193	17.2	27	17.8
Asian	355	22.7	240	21.4	47	30.9
Mixed/other races	223	14.3	143	12.8	14	9.2
Number of friends nominated
0	442	28.2	–	–	–	–
1	541	34.5	541	48.0	117	77.0
2	377	24.0	377	33.5	31	20.4
3	208	13.3	208	18.5	4	2.6
Frequency of being in touch with friends (mean; range =5–30)	-		20.0 (SD = 5.2)		20.6 (SD = 5.2)
Age (mean)	22.5 (SE = 2.0)		22.5 (SD = 2.0)		21.6 (SD = 1.87)

Percent of EAT 2018 YA sample.

Percent of EAT 2018 sample with ≥1 nominated friend.