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Experiences From Pregnancy and Post-partum Period in Women With a History of Eating Disorders.

NCT04815044 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2025-09-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Women with the eating disorder bulimia nervosa (BN) have been found to have a higher risk of unplanned pregnancies than healthy women, and experience greater miscarriage, premature birth, birth complications, and postpartum depression. Other studies have found that women with eating disorders seem to find motivation to refrain from the eating disordered behavior for the sake of the fetus, but that it is highly different whether this gives sustained or only a temporary remission.

Eating disorders are rarely detected in the primary health care service, nor during pregnancy or during follow-up in fertility clinics. Meeting a health care provider in the pregnancy care service who does not know about the eating disorder or who does not understand the disease well enough, can also make the management and experience of pregnancy and weight gain extra difficult.

The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge on how women with a history of eating disorder experience their bodily changes, and how they experience the health service in pregnancy care and post-partum period.

Conditions

  • Pregnancy Related
  • Eating Disorders
  • Bulimia Nervosa
  • Binge-Eating Disorder
  • Post Partum Depression

Interventions

OTHER

Pregnancy

Experiences from being pregnant when having a history of eating disorder

OTHER

Post-Partum

Experiences from the post-partum period when having a history of eating disorder

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Tromso

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ostfold University College

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Therese F Mathisen, PhD · Østfold University College

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-12-01
Primary Completion
2025-04-08
Completion
2025-04-08

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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Diseases

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