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Table 3 Participant demographics (N = 2288)

From: The classification of feeding and eating disorders in the ICD-11: results of a field study comparing proposed ICD-11 guidelines with existing ICD-10 guidelines

 

Language group

All

English

Spanish

Japanese

French

Chinese

N (%)

1061 (46%)

315 (14%)

340 (15%)

219 (10%)

353 (15%)

WHO global region

 Africa

64 (2.8%)

50 (4.7%)

0

0

14 (6.4%)

0

 USA and Canada

229 (10.0%)

221 (20.8%)

1 (0.3%)

0

7 (3.2%)

0

 Latin America/Caribbean

276 (12.1%)

43 (4.1%)

226 (71.8%)

0

7 (3.2%)

0

 Eastern Mediterranean

52 (2.3%)

46 (4.3%)

0

0

6 (2.7%)

0

 Europe

755 (33.0%)

484 (45.6%)

86 (27.3%)

0

185 (84.5%)

0

 Southeast Asia

144 (6.3%)

144 (13.6%)

0

0

0

0

 Western Pacific—Asia

695 (30.3%)

5 (0.5%)

0

337 (99.1%)

0

353 (100%)

 Western Pacific—Oceania

66 (2.9%)

66 (6.2%)

0

0

0

0

 Missing

8 (0.3%)

2 (0.2%)

2 (0.6%)

3 (0.9%)

1 (0.5%)

0

Male:Female

1277:985 (56:43)%

557:479 (53:47)%

153:162 (49:51)%

255:85 (75:25)%

122:96 (56:44)%

190:163 (54:46)%

Profession

 Medicine

1367 (59.7%)

515 (48.5%)

125 (39.7%)

270 (79.4%)

145 (66.2%)

312 (88.4%)

 Psychology

693 (30.3%)

397 (37.4%)

161 (51.1%)

52 (15.3%)

58 (26.5%)

25 (7.1%)

 Counseling

85 (3.7%)

68 (6.4%)

3 (1.0%)

3 (0.9%)

2 (0.9%)

9 (2.5%)

 Nursing

49 (2.1%)

26 (2.5%)

2 (0.6%)

6 (1.8%)

11(5.0%)

4 (1.1%)

 Social work

24 (1.0%)

17 (1.6%)

3 (1.0%)

1 (0.3%)

0

3 (0.8%)

 Sex therapy

6 (0.3%)

6 (0.6%)

0

0

0

0

 Speech therapy

2 (0.1%)

2 (0.2%)

0

0

0

0

 Other

62 (2.7%)

30 (2.8%)

21 (6.7%)

8 (2.4%)

3 (1.4%)

0

Mean (SD)

 Age

44.52 (11.08)

46.22 (10.91)

45.96 (11.75)

44.64 (10.26)

42.62 (12.29)

39.17 (8.87)

 Years of experience

13.77 (10.12)

14.60 (10.08)

16.56 (10.58)

13.31 (9.89)

13.73 (10.82)

9.29 (7.95)