Assessment of eating disorders with the diabetes eating problems survey – revised (DEPS-R) in a representative sample of insulin-treated diabetic patients: a validation study in Italy

Table 1 Descriptive data

	TOTAL	MALE	FEMALE	p	U di Mann-Whitney	z-value	I.C. 95%
SAMPLE	211	108	103
MEDIAN AGE (median)	38	38	38	0.74	5417.5
YEARS OF STUDY (median)	13	13	13	0.33	5142.0
BMI (median)	24	24	23	0.11	485.5
DEPS TOTAL(median)	12	10	14	0.004	4283.5
DSM-IV (perventage)	27 (12.8%)	9 (8.3%)	18 (17.5%)	0.0467		1.991	0.014	0.181
DSM-5 (perventage)	46 (21.8%)	12 (11.1%)	34 (33.0%)	0.00008		3.958	0.111	0.327
DIABETES TYPE I (perventage)	192 (91.0%)	97 (89.8%)	95 (92.2%)	0.54
DIABETES TYPE II (perventage)	19 (9.0%)	11 (10.2%)	8 (7.8%)	0.54		0.616	−0.053	0.101

Data are medians and percentages, p values refer to the significance of the difference between male and female (Mann-Whitney U-test and z-test respectively)

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