Background Psychosocial factors contribute to poorer weight loss outcomes following
bariatric surgery; however, findings on associations between preoperative psychiatric …

Background Research identifying preoperative psychosocial predictors of bariatric surgery
outcomes has yielded inconsistent results with minimal examination of longer-term …

Background: Although there has been some disagreement, there is growing evidence now
that psychopathology is a comorbidity of morbid obesity among patients seeking bariatric …

BACKGROUND: Although most bariatric surgery patients undergo a preoperative
psychological evaluation, the potential effect of psychiatric disorders on weight loss is not …

Background Previous studies suggest that presurgical psychopathology accounts for some
of the variance in suboptimal weight loss outcomes among Roux-en-Y gastric bypass …

Background Although pre-surgical psychological evaluations are commonly administered to
patients considered for weight loss surgeries, the value of these evaluations for predicting …

Background Presurgical psychological screening of bariatric surgery candidates includes
some form of standardized psychological assessment. However, associations between …

Objectives Studies exploring the impact of pre-surgery psychiatric status as a predictor of
health related quality of life (QOL) after bariatric surgery have been limited to short-term …

Background Though psychosocial factors are routinely examined in presurgical
psychological evaluations, the predictive value of some psychosocial factors on postsurgical …

What are the psychological characteristics of bariatric surgery candidates? What
components of the preoperative psychological evaluation are the most relevant to …