Authors: Steven Walfish
Publish Date: 2008/08/30
Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 423-425
Abstract
In the present study 898 women were assessed as part of a comprehensive presurgical evaluation Of these 898 patients 107 12 were seeking LAGB surgery and 791 88 were seeking gastric bypass surgery Their scores on a battery of psychological tests were compared with Ttests with Bonferroni correctionThose patients seeking gastric bypass had greater body mass indices than those seeking LAGB However the analyses found no statistically significant differences on measures of IQ depression anxiety anger selfassessed reasons for weight gain and psychopathology and personality as indicated by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory2 scale scoresThe psychological evaluation can be helpful in identifying behavioral and emotional issues that merit adjunct psychological attention to optimize longterm surgical outcome These results suggest that as a group no differential treatment planning needs to take place for psychological issues based on surgery performed
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