title: [Psychiatric features before and after intervention: a study of patients affected by severe obesity undergoing adjustable gastric banding].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study identifies psychological features and the evolution of psychiatric symptoms in a group of patients affected by obesity, who underwent adjustable gastric banding.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this group, other than clinical visit, test SCL-90 is made in preoperative time. In postoperative SCL-90, TAS and BES were carried out. Patients evaluated before and after bariatric surgery were 220 and 115, respectively. SCL-90 test made before bariatric surgery showed high values (>0.7) for cluster related to somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid ideation, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Depression symptoms were more important in patients undergoing endogastric balloon placement (mean value of 0.9). Anxious symptoms showed a mean value of 0.73 in patients undergoing endogastric balloon placement as compared to a mean value of 0.52 in patients undergoing gastric banding.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings show that in patients undergoing bariatric surgery, depressive symptoms are more common preoperatively and normalize at follow-up. This confirms that a possible cause of depression is obesity. The present study also shows that anxious symptoms are lower in obese patients.
authors: Chiara
authors: C
authors: Rovera
authors: Rita
authors: R
authors: Curti
authors: Elisa Maria
authors: EM
authors: Colombo
authors: Marco Antonio
authors: MA
authors: Zappa
authors: Ezio
authors: E
authors: Lattuada
authors: Enrico
authors: E
authors: Mozzi
authors: Massimo Carlo
authors: MC
authors: Mauri
authors: Giancarlo
authors: G
authors: Roviaro
authors: Alfredo Carlo
authors: AC
authors: Altamura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D015391:Gastroplasty / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery*