Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder and autistic traits in children with anorexia nervosa and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder

Table 4 Correlation between BMI-SDS, ChEAT26 and AQC

	Total AQC		Social skill		Attention switching		Attention to detail		Communication		Imagination
	CC:r	P-value	CC:r	P-value	CC:r	P-value	CC:r	P-value	CC:r	P-value	CC:r	P-value
AN (n = 92)
BMI-SDS	0.035	0.743	0.138	0.193	0.034	0.751	−0.164	0.123	0.090	0.398	−0.022	0.839
ChEAT26	−0.039	0.717	−0.169	0.111	0.101	0.344	0.046	0.670	0.028	0.796	−0.150	0.157
Preoccupation with thinness	− 0.063	0.553	− 0.137	0.199	0.051	0.630	0.008	0.939	−0.019	0.859	−0.126	0.238
Food preoccupation	−0.021	0.846	−0.119	0.262	0.099	0.355	0.036	0.733	0.029	0.789	−0.132	0.215
Dieting	−0.061	0.567	−0.165	0.120	0.066	0.539	0.035	0.747	0.021	0.847	−0.184	0.084
Social pressure to eating	0.068	0.523	−0.083	0.439	0.140	0.188	0.109	0.305	0.071	0.506	−0.006	0.959
Purging	−0.101	0.345	−0.158	0.138	0.019	0.857	−0.136	0.201	−0.016	0.884	−0.042	0.692
ARFID (n = 32)
BMI-SDS	−0.081	0.678	−0.146	0.443	−0.059	0.756	−0.141	0.458	−0.129	0.498	0.148	0.434
ChEAT26	0.395	0.038	0.180	0.350	0.345	0.067	0.385	0.039	0.202	0.294	0.282	0.139
Preoccupation with thinness	0.239	0.213	0.466	0.009	0.014	0.944	−0.197	0.297	0.141	0.458	0.304	0.103
Food preoccupation	0.388	0.038	0.117	0.539	0.406	0.026	0.239	0.203	0.332	0.073	0.137	0.472
Dieting	0.097	0.616	−0.075	0.696	0.142	0.454	0.239	0.203	0.060	0.752	0.065	0.733
Social pressure to eating	0.481	0.008	0.358	0.052	0.296	0.112	0.396	0.030	0.190	0.316	0.387	0.035
Purging	0.267	0.162	0.188	0.319	0.170	0.369	0.149	0.431	0.250	0.183	0.250	0.183

Abbreviations: BMI-SDS Standardised Body Mass Index, ChEAT26 Children’s Eating Attitudes Test, AQC Autism spectrum Quotient Children’s version, CC correlation coefficient

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