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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients and control group

From: Intact social cognitive processes in outpatients with anorexia nervosa: a pilot study

Variable

Anorexic patients (N = 25)

Healthy controls (N = 25)

t value, df = 48

p value

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Age

27.1

6.3

24.5

5.2

1.57

0.12

Years of education

16.1

1.4

16.4

0.9

−1.04

0.30

BMI

17.6

2.2

23.4

3.6

−6.77

0.001

Duration of illness

9.7

6.6

  

No of previous admissions

3.2

2.7

  

Yale–Brown scale score

20.0

6.2

4.1

5.3

9.49

0.001

BDI score

29.8

15.7

6.2

4.1

6.69

0.001

EAT-26 scale score

41.9

19.81

4.58

4.48

9.00

0.001