The aim of this study was to assess the differences by gender of patients with morbid obesity that are bariatric surgery candidates. The sample was composed of 441 patients evaluated through a clinical interview, the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE, version CIE-10) and the Gardner´s Body Image Assessment Scale. The results show that obese women sought treatment twice as much as men.Moreover, we found other gender differences, such as more Axis I pathology in the female group, and women showing a higher level of dissatisfaction and a more distorted body image than men.
El objetivo de este estudio fue valorar las diferencias por género de los pacientes con obesidad mórbida, candidatos a cirugía bariátrica. La muestra se compone de 441 pacientes evaluados mediante entrevista clínica, el Examen Internacional de los Trastornos de Personalidad (IPDE, versión CIE-10) y la Escala de Evaluación de la Imagen Corporal de Gardner. Los resultados muestran que las mujeres con obesidad solicitan este tipo de tratamiento dos veces más que los hombres. Además, se hallaron otras diferencias de género, tales como mayor patología del Eje I, mayor índice de insatisfacción, y mayor de distorsión de la imagen corporal en el grupo de mujeres.
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