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Received: 23 August 2017

Accepted: 29 August 2018

First Online: 3 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval was obtained from the Regional Ethics Review Board in Lund (Dnr: 2015/773). The participants gave their oral and written informed consent before their participation began. The research was guided by the research ethical principles for medical research (the Declaration of Helsinki). To maintain the principle of non-maleficence, the participants were guaranteed confidentiality. To respect the participants’ autonomy, all the participants were informed that they had the right to withdraw from the project at any time without suffering any consequences for their future care.In the interviews, the researchers were aware of power issues in that an interview is not a conversation between two equal individuals. The participants were treated with the utmost respect, and every effort was made to be highly sensitive to their needs and wishes. People with an MD are a vulnerable group, and both disgrace and sadness can arise during the interviews when talking about their disability or/and obesity. The interviewer was aware of the consequences when talking about obesity, and if a person with an MD experienced strong emotions, the researcher offered to help by contacting a curator (counsellor) or psychologist at the primary health care centre.

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