Psychiatric determinants of weight changes in jaw‐fixed obese patients
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 73 (2) , 196-202
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb10587.x
Abstract
Forty-five severely obese patients were treated with jaw fixation as a means of initiating weight loss. Patients who reported eating for consolation showed significantly greater difficulties in maintaining the achieved weight loss than the others. This finding constitutes further evidence of a relationship between obesity and depression. Low capacity to experience feelings of aggressiveness also seems to be linked to poor treatment results.Keywords
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