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- Title
Personality and Cognitive Findings Among Patients Electing Gastroplasty for Morbid Obesity.
- Authors
Chelune, Gordon J.; Ortega, Deems; Linton, John C.; Boustany, M. M.
- Abstract
This study examined the personality and cognitive characteristics morbidly obese patients seeking gastroplasty. Rather than seeking ‘modal’ psychological characteristics for the group as a whole, this investigation attempted to identify potentially relevant sources of variability that might serve as psychological markers tot later identifying patients at risk tot poor surgical outcome. Results indicate that while the patients share many life concerns and normal-range personality characteristics, they are quite heterogenous in terms of psychopathological features, with 72% of the patients falling into one of three modal personality types on the MMPI, Cognitively, the patients' general intellectual abilities were normally distributed, and a substantial portion of the evidenced significant deficit, in new concept formation and capacity to follow sequential procedures in a prescribed manner, abilities that seem, at face value, to be related to issues of compliance and ability to make lifestyle changes. The possibility of generating multivariate templates associated with different surgical outcomes from this data is, discussed.
- Subjects
OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT persons; DISEASES; SURGERY; EATING disorders; PERSONALITY; COGNITION; PSYCHOLOGY; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; BULIMIA; LIFESTYLES
- Publication
International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1986, Vol 5, Issue 4, p701
- ISSN
0276-3478
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/1098-108X(198605)5:4<701::AID-EAT2260050409>3.0.CO;2-7