The Impact of Psychological Support on Weight Loss Post Weight Loss Surgery: a Randomised Control Trial

The Impact of Psychological Support on Weight Loss Post Weight Loss Surgery: a Randomised Control Trial

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the impact of a health psychology-led bariatric rehabilitation service (BRS) on patient weight loss following bariatric surgery at 1 year. METHODS A single-site open-randomised parallel group control trial based at St. Richard's Hospital in Chichester in the UK. Patients (n = 162) were recruited immediately prior to Roux-en-Y gastric ...

The effect of rate of weight loss on long-term weight management: a randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Guidelines recommend gradual weight loss for the treatment of obesity, indicative of a widely held opinion that weight lost rapidly is more quickly regained. We aimed to investigate the effect of the rate of weight loss on the rate of regain in obese people. METHODS For this two phase, randomised, non-masked, dietary intervention trial in a Melbourne metropolitan hospital, we enrol...

Weight Loss Surgery Comparison

Impact of Weight Loss Surgery on Esophageal Physiology.

Bariatric surgery has come to the forefront of weight loss treatment due to its complex interactions via anatomic, physiologic, and neurohormonal changes leading to sustained weight loss. Unlike lifestyle and pharmacologic options, which fail to show long-term sustained weight loss, bariatric surgery has been shown to decrease overall mortality and morbidity. Bariatric surgery can be purely res...

Bariatric Psychology, Psychological Aspects of Weight Loss Surgery

The prevalence of obesity has reached epidemic proportions; obesity is one of the largest public health concerns and is called the ‘disease of the 21st century’ [1, 2]. Obesity is an international disease that is spreading worldwide, in the Western world as well as in the Third World [3]. The epidemic is rampant in the USA; however, Europe is not far behind, especially in Southern and Eastern E...