Occurrence, sociodemographic, and clinical correlates of eating disorders among a sample of secondary school students in Egypt

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 5 Predictive factors of eating disorders among the study sample

Independent variables	B	SE	EX (B)	Confidence interval (CI)		Sig. (P value)
Independent variables	B	SE	EX (B)	Lower limit	Upper limit	Sig. (P value)
Predictive factors
Female gender	1.957	0.492	7.077	2.698	18.559	0.0001**
Overweight (BMI = 25–29.9)	1.482	0.718	4.401	1.078	17.976	0.039*
Low self-esteem level (0–23 score)	1.430	1.562	0.239	0.011	5.113	0.0001**
High body shape preoccupation (40–60 score)	2.079	0.445	0.125	0.052	0.299	0.0001**

P value: (*) significant if P < 0.05 and (**) highly significant if P < 0.001
B logistic regression coefficient, SE standard error of B, Exp (B) estimated odds ratio