Obesity is not related to individuals but to environmental conditions; from the perspective of obese patients

Background: The Beliefs About Obese Persons Scale (BAOP) is used among non-obese people in English speaking countries to evaluate their opinions on obese people. Nevertheless, the data are scarce from view of Therefore, we wanted test BAOP patients order perspective patients. Methods: Between August 2019-June 2020, 115 (76.7%) female and 35 (23.3%) male, a total 150 who were admitted general surgery department be evaluated for bariatric surgey, included this study. Local ethics committee approval was obtained (2019/08-10). These asked fill out BAOP, which 8 statements each statement valued between -3 +3 points. Results: Mean score within all 34.87 ± 8.12 (range: 5-48). average 34.33 8.60 5-48) females 36.62 6.06 21-48) males (p = 0.14). frequency answers given by male 5th statement, “Most eat more than people”, showed statistically significant difference 0.03). Conclusions: had higher scores compared previous studies performed with Within study, considered obesity as condition not under control.