Citation

Sansone RA, Schumacher D, Wiederman MW, Routsong-Weichers L. Eat. Disord. 2008; 16(2): 117-127.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Randy.sansone@kmcnetwork.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10640260801887196

PMID

18307111

Abstract

In this study, we examined the prevalence of traumatic childhood experiences as well as the quality of parental caretaking among 121 individuals (85.9% of which were women) seeking surgical treatment for obesity (mean body mass index of 47.2). Among this sample, 43.0% reported emotional abuse, 39.0% the witnessing of violence, 19.0% sexual abuse, 17.4% physical abuse, and 9.1% physical neglect. While the overall quality of parental caretaking was skewed toward a positive rating, those respondents who indicated each form of childhood trauma rated the quality of parental caretaking lower than did those without that specific form of abuse. The authors discuss the implications of these findings.

Language: en