TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Psychological functioning and well-being before and after bariatric surgery; what is the benefit of being self-compassionate?
JO  - British journal of health psychology
A1  - Pyykkö, Johanna Eveliina
A1  - Aydin, Ömrüm
A1  - Gerdes, Victor E. A.
A1  - Acherman, Yaïr I. Z.
A1  - Groen, Albert K.
A1  - van de Laar, Arnold W.
A1  - Nieuwdorp, Max
A1  - Sanderman, Robbert
A1  - Hagedoorn, Mariët
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether patients' psychological well-being (depression, quality of life, body image satisfaction) and functioning (self-efficacy for eating and exercising behaviours and food cravings) improve 12 months after bariatric surgery and whether self-compassion is associated with better psychological outcomes and lower weight after bariatric surgery. <br><br>DESIGN: Longitudinal, prospective observational study. <br><br>METHODS: Bariatric patients (n = 126, 77.8% female, 46.4 ± 10.8 years) completed the Self-compassion Scale, Center for Epidemiology Studies Depression Scale, Impact of Weight on Quality-of-Life questionnaire, Body Image Scale, Weight Efficacy Lifestyle Questionnaire, Spinal Cord Injury Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale, and G-Food Craving Questionnaire pre-operatively and 12 months post-operatively. A medical professional measured patients' weight during each assessment. Data were analysed using repeated measures t-tests and multivariate regression analyses with Benjamini-Hochberg correction for multiple testing. <br><br>RESULTS: Patients' BMI, depression, and food cravings decreased significantly after surgery while quality of life, body image satisfaction, and self-efficacy to exercise improved. Higher self-compassion was associated with lower post-operative depression, greater quality of life, higher body image satisfaction, and better self-efficacy for eating behaviours (p-values <.05) but not with post-operative BMI, self-efficacy to exercise, or food cravings. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Even though pre-operative self-compassion was not directly associated with a lower 12-month post-operative BMI, it had a positive relationship with patients' post-operative well-being and self-efficacy for controlling eating behaviour. In turn, this could help patients to manage their health long after bariatric surgery. Further work regarding the role of self-compassion on long-term health outcomes would be worthwhile.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1359-107X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12532
ID  - ref1
ER  -