Personality traits of patients candidates for Bariatric surgery at the Central Military Hospital

Rasgos de personalidad de pacientes candidatos a cirugía Bariátrica en el hospital Militar Central

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Pablo Alfonso Sanabria Ferrand
Patricia Henández Zubieta
Santiago Pino Robledo
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The aim of the present research was to identify the characteristic personality traits of patients from the Central Army Hospital (Hospital Militar Central) in Bogotá, who were candidates to bariatric surgery. To achieve this, 430 psychological histories of patients who attended psychological assessment as bariatric surgery candidates were reviewed, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 was applied and a semi-structured interview was carried out, the latter based on the assessment format for patients diagnosed with morbid obesity. The results showed a predominance of combinations 1-2 Hypochondriasis-Depression personality traits in patients who had obesity types I and II, and a predominance of 1-8 Hypochondriasis -Schizophrenia personality traits in patients who had super
obesity. As a conclusion, there is a relationship between the profiles and the behaviors that characterize obese people, but no difficulties regarding social performance were found, just as the literature on the topic confirms.

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Pablo Alfonso Sanabria Ferrand, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada

Soy profesor asociado de la facultad de medicina de la Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, psicólogo Universidad Católica de Colombia, Especialista en Epidemiologia de la universidad del Rosario, especialista en análisis de datos de la Universidad de la Salley Magister en psicologia de la Universidad Naciional de Colombia.