Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
Open Access

Research Article

Can Body Group Therapy after Bariatric Surgery be Effective to Avoid Weight Regain? A Clinical Experience

Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Science and Odontostomatology, School of Medicine “Federico II” Naples, Italy

*Corresponding Author:

Fausta Micanti
Department of Neuroscience, USD: Psychiatry, UOS: Eating Disorder and Obesity
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Received date: July 19, 2016; Accepted date: July 26, 2016; Published date: July 29, 2016

Citation: Micanti F, Loiarro G, Cucciniello C, Pecoraro G, Galletta D (2016) Can Body Group Therapy after Bariatric Surgery be Effective to Avoid Weight Regain? A Clinical Experience. J Obes Weight Loss Ther 6:314. doi:10.4172/2165-7904.1000314

Copyright: © 2016 Micanti F, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Introduction:Weight regain may occur with bariatric surgery and it depends on nutritional, psychological and surgery-related factors. The persistence of body shape concern and uneasiness after weight loss is considered a risk factor for weight regain. Weight loss after Bariatric surgery determines change of the cognitive-behavioral component of Body Image, but not the emotional one. The aim of this study is to show that Group psychotherapy can repair the body image emotional component achieving weight maintenance. Method:30 patients: mean age 38 SD ± 10, 71; 18 women, 12 men; mean Body Mass Index (BMI) 48 SD± 8,31 suffering from onset obesity, were enrolled in this study. All participants were evaluated before and after bariatric surgery. They underwent body group psychotherapy to reinforce body image and self Results:Results of body group therapy were: a significant increase of the ability to use body in the relation with the others and a better tendency to accomplish new experiences. No differences were found among groups in self reinforcement process related to sleeve and gastric by-pass. Conclusion:Psychotherapy is an effective tool in changing body Image and reinforcing self. This process can be more effective in achieving and structuring weight stability and realize obesity healing.

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