Eating disorder inventory in the assessment of psychosocial status in the obese patients prior to and at long term following biliopancreatic diversion for obesity

• Published in: The International journal of eating disorders Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 265 - 274
• Main Authors: Adami, Gian Franco, Gandolfo, Patrizia, Campostano, Adelia, Bauer, Beatrice, Cocchi, Florio, Scopinaro, Nicola
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.04.1994; Wiley
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biliopancreatic Diversion; Biliopancreatic Diversion - psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Body Image; Body Weight; facteur psychologique; factores psicologicos; Feeding Behavior; Feeding Behavior - psychology; Female; femme; Follow-Up Studies; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; hombres; homme; Humans; Illness and personality; Illness, stress and coping; Male; men; Middle Aged; mujeres; obesity; Obesity, Morbid; Obesity, Morbid - psychology; Obesity, Morbid - surgery; operaciones quirurgicas; operation chirurgicale; overweight; Personality Inventory; Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data; peso; poids; Postoperative Complications; Postoperative Complications - psychology; psychological factors; psychology; Psychology and medicine; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychometrics; self-perception; sobrepeso; Social Adjustment; statistics & numerical data; surgery; surgical operations; surpoids; weight; women; Human; Postoperative; Emotionality; Evaluation; Obesity; Body perception; Nutrition disorder; Roux en Y loop; Self perception; Personality; Eating disorder; Bypass; Follow up study; Biliodigestive; Surgery; Coping; Nutritional status
• ISSN: 0276-3478; 1098-108X
• DOI: 10.1002/1098-108X(199404)15:3<265::AID-EAT2260150310>3.0.CO;2-F

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 reactivity 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.