[The incidence of sexual abuse in women with eating disorders].
The literature is contradictory concerning a possible connection between sexual abuse and the development of eating disorders. In the present study, the medical records and psychotherapeutic courses of all female patients (n = 127) were reviewed for the years 1987-1989 in the Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at Steglitz Medical Center in Berlin in order to record any reported incidences of pre-onset sexual abuse as well as the age at the time of abuse. The women were subdivided into four diagnostic groups: obesity (n = 14), bulimia (n = 18), anorexia (n = 22) and others without eating disorders (n = 73). Altogether, sexual abuse was reported in 19% with and 10% without eating disorders (difference not statistically significant). Comparison of the individual diagnostic groups unexpectedly revealed a significantly higher frequency of sexual abuse among obese patients than among those without eating disorders (36% vs. 10%, p = 0.028).
Abt. für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie im Klinikum Steglitz der FU Berlin.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D001604:Berlin / Q000453:epidemiology; D002032:Bulimia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012307:Risk Factors
Zur Häufigkeit sexuellen Missbrauchs bei essgestörten Frauen.