Exploring effectiveness of CBT in obese patients with binge eating disorder: personality functioning is associated with clinically significant change.

Background: Binge eating disorder (BED), as the most prevalent eating disorder, is strongly related to obesity and other somatic and psychiatric morbidity. Despite evidence-based treatments a considerable number of BED patients fail to recover. There is preliminary evidence for the association between psychodynamic personality functioning and personality traits on treatment outcome.

Personality Functioning in Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: Combining a Psychodynamic and Trait Perspective.

Objective: There is preliminary evidence for an association between personality traits and binge eating disorder (BED) in obese patients. In addition, recent studies have shown impaired psychodynamic personality functioning in BED. However, these results are partly inconsistent.

Behavioral and psychological factors associated with suboptimal weight loss in post-bariatric surgery patients.

Purpose: Bariatric surgery is the most effective long-term treatment for sustained weight loss in obesity. Studies have shown that not all patients lose the expected amount of weight. The aim of this study was to develop a better understanding of which behavioral and psychological factors are associated with suboptimal weight loss.