Relationship between Risk Behavior for Eating Disorders and Dental Caries and Dental Erosion

Table 2

Sample characterization.

Characteristics	Variable	(%)
Sociodemographic	Age
	15 years	290 (34.1%)
	16 years	281 (33.1%)
	17 years	197 (23.2%)
	18 years	82 (9.6%)
	Type of school
	Public	648 (76.2%)
	Private	202 (23.8%)
	Dental visit in the last 6 months
	Yes	374 (44.0%)
	No	476 (56.0%)
	Monthly family income
	Less than or equal to 1 minimum wage	129 (43.9%)
	Greater than 1 minimum wage	165 (56.1%)
Behavioral and cognitive	Symptoms of eating disorder (ED)
	No risk (normal eating standard)	493 (58.0%)
	Risk situation (nonusual eating habits)	316 (37.2%)
	Situation of eating disorder (presence of binge eating behavior with great chances of having bulimia nervosa)	41 (4.8%)
	Risk behavior for ED based on symptom severity scales
	Not significant (score ≤ 4)	11 (26.9%)
	Clinically significant (score: 5–9)	18 (43.9%)
	High severity (score ≥ 10)	12 (29.2%)

Minimum wage value at the time of the survey: U$ 250.15 in the year 2015.