Table 1.
Basic descriptive statistics of age group, gender, eating disorder diagnosis, and COVID-19 circumstances
| Participaits n (%) | ||||||
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| United States | Netherlands | Sweden | ||||
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| N | 132 | 219 | 702 | |||
| Age, mean ± SD | 32.1 ± 10.4 | -- | 32.3 ± 8.6 | |||
| 16-21 years | 12 (9) | 50 (23) | 22 (3) | |||
| 22-29 years | 60 (45) | 96 (44) | 258 (37) | |||
| 30-39 years | 29 (22) | 48 (22) | 274 (39) | |||
| 40-49 years | 20 (15) | 10 (5) | 119 (17) | |||
| 50+ years | 10 (8) | 15 (7) | 29 (4) | |||
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| Gender | ||||||
| Male | <5 (<5) | 6 (3) | 12 (2) | |||
| Female | 130 (98) | 213 (97) | 685 (98) | |||
| Other | 0 | 0 | <5 (<5) | |||
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| Eating disorder diagnosis * | ||||||
| Anorexia nervosa | 90 (68) | 147 (67) | 455 (65) | |||
| Bulimia nervosa | 42 (32) | 43 (20) | 254 (36) | |||
| Binge-eating disorder | 31 (24) | 20 (9) | 161 (23) | |||
| Other** | 95 (72) | 96 (44) | 402 (57) | |||
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| COVID-19 circumstances*** | T1 | T2 | T1 | T2 | T1 | T2 |
| Currently quarantined | 54 (41) | <5 (<5) | 34 (16) | <5 (<5) | 47 (7) | 21 (3) |
| Working from home | 86 (65) | 50 (38) | 110 (50) | 68 (31) | 332 (47) | 351 (51) |
| Physical distancing | 130 (99) | 108 (82) | 213 (98) | 181 (83) | 554 (79) | 521 (75) |
| Has had COVID-19 | <5 (<5) | 10 (7) | <5 (<5) | 15 (7) | 12 (2) | 113 (16) |
| Got 1st vaccination | -- | 98 (74) | -- | 42 (19) | -- | 137 (20) |
Note: Percentages on available data are reported when data are missing. In NL, participants could only select age categories rather than reporting specific ages.
Percentages could sum to over 100% as individuals could select multiple options.
Study participants could check any of the following diagnoses, which were then combined in the category “Other” for this table: Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder/Atypical anorexia nervosa/Purging disorder/Night-eating syndrome/Other specified feeding or eating disorder/Other ED.
For these items, US total n 130-132, NL total n 218-219, SE total n 694-701; total n might deviate from the total included because individuals could skip questions (US) or exit the survey prematurely (US, NL, SE).
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation.