Childhood traumatic events and loss of control eating in pregnancy: Findings from a community sample of women with overweight and obesity

Cohort profile: Life-course experiences and pregnancy (LEAP)–A retrospective pregnancy cohort for life-course reproductive health research

“…At each EAT wave, participants were asked to self-report several weight-related risk factors and characteristics including their body weight (and, prior to age 18, their height); binge eating in the past 12 months, and whether they had experienced loss of control while binge eating; unhealthy weight control behaviors (e.g., fasting, purging, using diet pills); body dissatisfaction; and depressive symptoms. At EAT-IV (aged [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], participants were asked to retrospectively report experiences of childhood abuse and neglect, which have been found to be associated with adult body weight [23,43,44], using measures from the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire [45] and survey questions by Finkelhor et al [46] Table 2 provides details on a selection of key Project EAT measures, including survey questions, test-retest values, and variables derived from each measure.…”

“…Binge eating and unhealthy weight control behaviors in the past 12 months, body dissatisfaction, and depressive symptoms were taken from the EAT-I survey. A history of child maltreatment was retrospectively reported on EAT-IV when participants were adults (age [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36].…”

“…These associations may extend into pregnancy, yet almost nothing is known about how a history of adolescent disordered eating or unhealthy weight control behaviors may influence weight behaviors and weight gain during pregnancy. Likewise, a history of childhood maltreatment, which is associated with disordered eating and obesity in non-pregnant adults [19][20][21][22][23][24][25], could potentially be a risk factor for disordered eating [26] and excessive weight gain in pregnancy [27][28][29].…”

Zaburzenia odżywiania a postrzeganie obrazu ciała wśród kobiet po urodzeniu dziecka w okresie postpandemicznym

“…Czynniki te determinują poród przedwczesny, a w konsekwencji predysponują do stanu klinicznego defi niowanego jako mikrosomia u dziecka (Aliaga et al, 2019). Trauma społeczna przebiegająca w dzieciństwie przyczynia się do podwyższonego poziomu skłonności destrukcyjnych w relacji z jedzeniem pod postacią utraty samokontroli w okresie przed planowaną ciążą oraz podczas zagnieżdżania zarodka do momentu perinatalnego (około trzech miesięcy przed implantacją zarodka i podczas całego okresu ciąży) (Emery et al, 2021;Bye et al, 2018).…”