Understanding help-seeking in eating disorders
25 February 2025
The purpose of the project is to understand your experience of seeking help for an eating disorder. This might include factors which helped you to ask for help for eating problems as well as thinking about what made it difficult. We are specifically interested in the experiences of people from under-served groups in eating disorder treatment including people from ethnic minority groups, men, and people from sexual and gender minority groups.
Requirements
- Experience of ANY eating disorder (formal diagnosis or treatment is NOT required)
- Self-identify as having ONE of the following characteristics: from an ethnic or racial minority group, identify as male, from a sexual or gender minority group.
- Aged 16 years or older
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Ethical approval
This study has been approved by King's College London research ethics office on 10/10/2024 Reference Number: HR/DP-24/25-43192.
About the researcher
Jessica is a PhD student in the Centre for Eating and Weight Disorders (CREW) at King’s College London. She is an HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist and has worked in both the private and public sector in eating disorder services since 2016. She is particularly interested in understanding help-seeking experiences among traditionally under-served groups in eating disorder research.
