The Impact of Self-Reported Impulsivity on the Course of Weight Is Mediated by Disinhibited Eating.

This study investigates the impact of impulsivity and the mediating role of disinhibited eating behaviour (DEB) on weight and weight trajectories in a large data set including obese non-treatment seeking individuals (obese control, n = 138) and obese individuals who were either receiving a conventional treatment program (n = 227) or bariatric surgery (n = 123). Data was assessed one, 4 and 9 years after baseline including self-reports for impulsivity and DEB. Results suggest a significant association between impulsivity and body mass index, which is partially mediated by DEB.

Short-term effects of media exposure to the thin ideal in female inpatients with an eating disorder compared to female inpatients with a mood or anxiety disorder or women with no psychiatric disorder.

Objective: Previous research demonstrated that the exposure to media portrayals of the thin body ideal negatively affects body satisfaction and mood of healthy women and thus represents a sociocultural risk factor for the development of eating disorders. However, at present, it is not known whether negative effects of the thin ideal are pronounced in eating-disordered patients.

Method: Female inpatients with a current diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (N = 36), bulimia nervosa (N = 32), or mood or anxiety disorder (N = 31), and women with no current psychiatric diagnosis were randomly assigned to exposure to magazine pictures depicting the thin female body ideal or landscape scenes in two experimental phases (leafing through a magazine followed by instructed imagination of a picture from the magazine).

Health-related quality of life and psychological functioning 9 years after restrictive surgical treatment for obesity.

Background: Bariatric surgery leads to initial weight loss that is associated with improvement in mental health; however, long-term effects are uncertain.

Objective: To investigate the impact of restrictive surgical treatment for obesity on weight loss, psychological functioning, and quality of life 9 years after surgery.

Setting: University hospitals and obesity centers, Germany.

Psychological outcome 4 years after restrictive bariatric surgery.

Extreme obesity is associated with severe psychiatric and somatic comorbidity and impairment of psychosocial functioning. Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment not only with regard to weight loss but also with obesity-associated illnesses. Health-related psychological and psychosocial variables have been increasingly considered as important outcome variables of bariatric surgery.

Obesity and quality of life: a controlled study of normal-weight and obese individuals.

Background: Obesity is a major public health problem that is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality.

Objective: The authors investigated the associations between health-related quality of life (HRQL) and Body Mass Index (BMI), gender, age, mental and somatic disorders, as well as therapy-seeking status.

Method: A cross-sectional controlled study assessed 640 male and female individuals, clustered into four weight categories.

[Psychiatric comorbidity and quality of life in obese individuals--a prospective controlled study].

The multicenter prospective study which started in 2001 aimed at identifying predictors of the course of weight after conventional and surgical weight loss treatment. By means of structured psychiatric interviews and self-rating questionnaires the study evaluated prevalence and course of comorbid mental disorders of obese individuals. Of further interest were demographic, psychosocial and psychosomatic variables including quality of life.

Psychological outcome two years after restrictive bariatric surgery.

Background: An essential outcome criterion of obesity surgery besides weight loss is the improvement of medical and psychological health status. Both dimensions influence quality of life. This study evaluates depressive symptoms, self-esteem and health-related quality of life 2 years after bariatric surgery.

Prevalence of mental disorders in normal-weight and obese individuals with and without weight loss treatment in a German urban population.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence rates of mental disorders in normal-weight individuals and obese individuals with and without weight loss treatment.

Methods: A sample of 251 participants in a conventional weight loss treatment, 153 pre-bariatric surgery patients, 174 normal-weight control participants, and 128 obese control participants not actively losing weight at the time of the investigation were examined.

Results: Lifetime prevalence rates of mental disorders in obese women ranged from 46.

The influence of eating behavior and eating pathology on weight loss after gastric restriction operations.

Background: Eating behavior before surgery is considered to have great predictive value for the course of weight after surgery. The present study investigates the predictive value of three dimensions of eating behavior and disturbed eating on weight loss after gastric restriction surgery.

Methods: 149 patients consisting of 47 males (32%), 102 females (68%), with mean age 38.