Eating disorder inventory in the assessment of psychosocial status in the obese patients prior to and at long term following biliopancreatic diversion for obesity
✍ Scribed by Adami, Gian Franco ;Gandolfo, Patrizia ;Campostano, Adelia ;Bauer, Beatrice ;Cocchi, Florio ;Scopinaro, Nicola
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 666 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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✦ Synopsis
Psychological traits of obese patients, assessed with the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), were compared to those of subjects in the long-term following biliopancreatic diversion for obesity (BPD), when body weight has been steadily normal for over 1 year and any preoccupation with dieting and weight has been completely abandoned. The overall results suggest that the stable body weight normalization on a completely free diet does confer considerable psychological benefit on obese individuals. On the basis of the EDI results, post-BPD subjects were divided into weight-preoccupied and not-weight-preoccupied individuals. In the not-weight-preoccupied subjects, the psychosocial status and emotional rectivity were closely similar to those observed in lean control persons, whereas the few weight-preoccupied subjects, in spite of completely normal body weight, showed residual body dissatisfaction and personality traits very similar to those of eating-disordered patients.