Participants Demographics

We invited any servicemember who entered the military between February 2023 and January 2024 (about 157K individuals in total) to participate in the study. We returned a number of 1,146 responses so far.
As of mid-October 2024, we estimate that approximately 32.4% of our study participant population is struggling with an eating disorder.
A pie chart showing the military branch-make up of our participants, which breaks down to 47.8% Army, 30.4% Airforce, 12.4% Navy, 6.4% Marine Corps, and 1.9% Coat Guard.
A pie chart showing that the majority of our study participants are white and Black individuals, totaling 85.7%, with the next majority being Native American individuals at 3.9%.
A pie chart showing that while only making up 17.5% of military personnel, women make up 57.3% of our study participants. Men make up the rest of the majority with 41.5% followed by transgender-identifying persons at 0.5%.