Does Bariatric Surgery Changes Eating Habits and Addiction in Morbid Obesity?

Bezmialem Vakif University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01412268

BAVUGC-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

1. Obesity is a big health problem worldwide.
2. Mostly obese people have food addiction and bad eating habits.
3. Bariatric surgery is a good alternative for patients who failed to loose weight with other measures like behavioral changes, activities and sports, diet, etc..
4. The investigators know the changes occurred after surgery in eating habits due to restrictive and malabsorptive feature of the surgery performed.
5. There is no study in the literature to measure these changes.
6. The investigators will try to detect these kind of behavioral changes by a survey before and after surgery.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with BMI > 40 kg/m2
• Patients with BMI > 35 kg7m2 < 40 kg/m2 but with comorbidity
• Patients > 18 years old
• Patients who sign the inform consent
• Patients who have no psychiatric disease
• Patients who have no endocrine disorders

Exclusion criteria

• All obese patients who do not fulfill the criteria above mentioned