What is it about?
Mental disorders are frequent conditions in both pre- and post-bariatric surgery period. We determined current and lifetime rate of mental disorders in accordance with structured interview SCID-I. Most class III pre-surgical obese patients (n=393) meet diagnostic criteria for mental disorders (57,8% current prevalence and 80.9% lifetime prevalence).
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Why is it important?
Reliable assessment of psychopathology in pre-surgical period is important for early referral to treatment, stabilization before surgical intervention, and to avoid post-surgical worsening. The SCID-I is a standardized gold-standard clinical interview to determine the presence of mental disorders.
Perspectives
Most of obese patients earger to be submitted to bariatric surgery and tend to disguise psychopathology. Structured clinical interview can assure the mental health of patient in the pre-surgical period. The very high rate of mental disorders found among obese patient can be helpful to understand the bidirectional causal relationship between mental disorder and obesity.
Dr Yuan-Pang Wang
Universidade de Sao Paulo Campus da Capital
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This page is a summary of: Psychiatric Disorders Among Obese Patients Seeking Bariatric Surgery: Results of Structured Clinical Interviews, Obesity Surgery, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-014-1464-y.
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