The most frequently offered services
(offered daily in 60% or more of the colleges)
and the services cited as most important:
MOST FREQUENTLY OFFERED
RANKED MOST IMPORTANT
• On staff counselor/psychologist/ psychia
trist with a specialty in eating disorders and
body image issues
• Individual psychotherapy to address eating
disorders and body image issues
• Pamphlets or information sheets available
in health or counseling center
• Web sites with information on eating
disorders • On staff counselor/psychologist/psychia
trist with a specialty in eating disorders
and body image issues
• Individual psychotherapy to address eating
disorders and body image issues
• On Staff nutritionist with eating disorders
specialty • Therapy groups for students with eating
disorder Correlation between importance rating and frequency offered,
organized by program/service category
(based on cross–tabulation between frequency and importance variables,
performed by Cornell University’s Statistical Consulting Unit).
After controlling for duplicate answers from
representatives of the same institution,
the following were rated by 115-119 respondents:
group, yet 100% of respondents who said
therapy groups are offered at least once
per year/semester stated therapy groups
for students are somewhat (20%) or very/
extremely (80%) important.
• 97.2% of those who have monthly, week-
ly or daily therapy groups say it is very/
extremely important.
• Of the 44.9% who stated therapy groups
are not offered, 75% stated they are very/
extremely or somewhat important.
• P–value of .002 indicates that we can
reject the hypothesis that the impor-
tance variable is independent from the
frequency variable.
NEDAwareness Week Activities
(119 respondents)
• Overall, 73% of colleges surveyed offer
NEDAwareness Week activities, and
94.1% of all respondents stated it is
somewhat (36.1%) or very/extremely
(58%) important. Only 5.9% stated that
NEDAwareness Week is not important.
• The p–value of the chi–squared test is
.006, indicating that we can reject the
hypothesis that the importance variable
is independent from the frequency vari-
able. Therapy Groups (118 respondents)
• Only 43.2% of campuses offer therapy
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