Influence of mental and behavioral factors on weight loss after bariatric surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Multiple factors are related to lower weight loss after bariatric surgery. This review and meta-analysis evaluates the influence of several mental and behavioral factors on weight loss.

Method: Six electronic databases were searched.

Body Contouring Surgery after Massive Weight Loss: Excess Skin, Body Satisfaction, and Qualification for Reimbursement in a Dutch Post-Bariatric Surgery Population.

Background: Body contouring surgery improves quality of life, weight loss, and body image after bariatric surgery. It is unclear why only a minority of the post-bariatric surgery population undergoes body contouring surgery. This study assesses overhanging skin, body satisfaction, and qualification for reimbursement of body contouring surgery in a Dutch post-bariatric surgery population.

Weight Change After Roux-en Y Gastric Bypass, Physical Activity and Eating Style: Is There a Relationship?

Background: Insufficient weight loss and weight regain is seen in 20-30% of the post-bariatric population. More knowledge about the effect of physical activity and eating style on weight change after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is essential since behaviour can be modified and thereby results improved. The goal of this study is to determine the relationship between weight change, self-reported physical activity and eating style.

Body image dissatisfaction and depression in postbariatric patients is associated with less weight loss and a desire for body contouring surgery.

Background: Overhanging skin in postbariatric patients leads to a negative body image. In patients with obesity, negative body image is related to more depressive symptoms and a higher weight. This relationship might also be important in postbariatric patients, because improvement of body image via body contouring surgery (BCS) could lead to better weight loss results.

Improvement of Health-Related Quality of Life After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Related to Weight Loss.

Introduction: Effect of bariatric surgery on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) varies greatly. This might be caused by the diversity in questionnaires used to assess HRQOL and the weight loss of the studied population. This study assesses the relationship between weight loss and HRQOL in primary Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) patients by using an obesity-specific (impact of weight on quality of life-lite, IWQOL-lite) and a generic (RAND-36) questionnaire.

Implicit measures of association in psychopathology research.

Studies obtaining implicit measures of associations in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., Text Revision; American Psychiatric Association, 2000) Axis I psychopathology are organized into three categories: (a) studies comparing groups having a disorder with controls, (b) experimental validity studies, and (c) incremental and predictive validity studies. In the first category, implicit measures of disorder-relevant associations were consistent with explicit beliefs for some disorders (e.

Expectations, mood, and eating behavior in binge eating disorder. Beware of the bright side.

Sad people may indulge in fattening snacks because they believe that eating will repair their mood. To test whether (1) changes in expectations and mood had an effect on caloric intake and (2) depressive symptoms moderated caloric intake, 73 women with binge eating disorder were randomly assigned to a condition in which expectations about food and emotion were either confirmed or disconfirmed. Subsequently they were shown either an upsetting or an amusing movie clip followed by a taste task.

The effect of suppressing negative emotions on eating behavior in binge eating disorder.

Overeating may be a consequence of the suppression of negative emotions, by depleting self-control resources. This experiment investigated whether (a) there is a causal relationship between the suppression of negative emotions, negative mood, and overeating in people with binge eating disorder (BED) and whether (b) this relationship is increased in depressed people with BED. Sixty-six women with (full and sub-threshold) BED were shown an upsetting movie and then asked either to suppress their emotions or to react naturally.

Attentional re-training decreases attentional bias in heavy drinkers without generalization.

Aims: To examine whether alcohol-related attentional bias (AB) can be reduced by training heavy drinkers to attend to soft drinks as an alternative to alcohol. Diminishing AB is important because AB has been suggested to be a significant factor in the development, maintenance and relapse of addictive behaviours. AB was trained in a clinically relevant design, and we studied the generalization of this training.

Effect of cue exposure, urge to smoke, and nicotine deprivation on cognitive performance in smokers.

The primary aim of this investigation was to test the hypothesis that the urge to smoke interferes directly with cognitive performance. Fifty-four smokers were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: (a). ad lib, (b).

Increasing the efficacy of cue exposure treatment in preventing relapse of addictive behavior.

Theoretically, cue exposure treatment should be able to prevent relapse by extinguishing conditioned drug responding (e.g. cue-elicited craving).