TY - JOUR
T1 - Imagen corporal y malestar psicológico en una muestra de adolescentes y jóvenes cnilenos, candidatos a cirugía bariátrica
AU - Cruzat-Mandich, Claudia
AU - Díaz-Castrillón, Fernanda
AU - Jiménez, Valentina Gabriela Ulloa
N1 - Funding Information:
Este estudio fue posible gracias al fi- nanciamiento de la Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnoló-gica (CONICYT), por medio del Fon-do Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT-Regular N° 1140085): Cambios en la imagen corporal en adolescentes sometidos a cirugía bariátrica.
Funding Information:
Se llevó a cabo la prueba t de Student para una muestra para analizar las dife-rencias de medias de las dimensiones del SCL-90 y el MBSRQ de la muestra y las de población adolescente y joven chilena representada por una muestra no clíni-ca de 1.438 estudiantes secundarios y de educación superior chilenos de entre 14 y 25 años31. Estos “puntajes normales” no son un verdadero grupo de control, sino que entregan una indicación general de la normalidad y se han incluido con fines comparativos solamente. Se promedia-ron los puntajes para hombres y mujeres de aquel estudio, debido a que el bajo nú-mero de hombres de la presente muestra no permite realizar una comparación separadamente por sexo. La prueba t se utilizó con las variables distribuidas nor-malmente (indicado en tabla 3), mien-tras que en el caso de las variables que no cumplían con el supuesto de normali-dad, se utilizó la prueba no paramétrica del signo de rangos de Wilcoxon (para una muestra). En segunda instancia, se utilizó el coeficiente de correlación por rangos de Spearman para analizar las correlaciones entre IMC, aspectos de la imagen corporal y malestar psicológico.
PY - 2016/7
Y1 - 2016/7
N2 - Bariatric surgery is becoming increasingly popular among adolescents and young adults, given the procedures association with weight loss and improvements in quality of life. Thus, it is necessary to explore psychological variables involved in the process pre and post-surgery. Objectives: To describe psychosocial and medical characteristics of a sample of Chilean adolescent and young adults candidates for bariatric surgery, and to analyze the relationships between their BMI, body image, and psychological distress. Methodology: Quantitative cross-sectional study with a descriptive-relational approach. The sample is comprised of 61 candidatesfor bariatric surgery between the ages of 15 and 25 from different Chilean health centers (5 males and 56 females). The MBSRQ and SCL-90-R questionnaires were administered to evaluate body image and psychological distress, respectively. Wilcoxon and Spearman's tests were used to compare groups and analyze correlations between variables. Results: No significant relationships were observed between BMI, MBSRQ or the SCL-90-R. Participants presented higher levels of health and illness orientation and of dissatisfaction with their appearance, health and fitness when compared to a non-clinical adolescent sample of another study. Significant correlations were observed between these three latter constructs and certain dimensions of psychopathology. Similar levels of appearance orientation were found among the sample and non-clinical adolescents. Conclusion: These findings highlight the importance of focusing on the evaluative aspects of body image, specifically in regard to appearance, when providing psychological support pre and post-surgery, in order to complement medical and nutritional care, and to address potential psychosocial and emotional complications.
AB - Bariatric surgery is becoming increasingly popular among adolescents and young adults, given the procedures association with weight loss and improvements in quality of life. Thus, it is necessary to explore psychological variables involved in the process pre and post-surgery. Objectives: To describe psychosocial and medical characteristics of a sample of Chilean adolescent and young adults candidates for bariatric surgery, and to analyze the relationships between their BMI, body image, and psychological distress. Methodology: Quantitative cross-sectional study with a descriptive-relational approach. The sample is comprised of 61 candidatesfor bariatric surgery between the ages of 15 and 25 from different Chilean health centers (5 males and 56 females). The MBSRQ and SCL-90-R questionnaires were administered to evaluate body image and psychological distress, respectively. Wilcoxon and Spearman's tests were used to compare groups and analyze correlations between variables. Results: No significant relationships were observed between BMI, MBSRQ or the SCL-90-R. Participants presented higher levels of health and illness orientation and of dissatisfaction with their appearance, health and fitness when compared to a non-clinical adolescent sample of another study. Significant correlations were observed between these three latter constructs and certain dimensions of psychopathology. Similar levels of appearance orientation were found among the sample and non-clinical adolescents. Conclusion: These findings highlight the importance of focusing on the evaluative aspects of body image, specifically in regard to appearance, when providing psychological support pre and post-surgery, in order to complement medical and nutritional care, and to address potential psychosocial and emotional complications.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Bariatric surgery
KW - Body image
KW - Obesity
KW - Psychopathology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84986903064&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84986903064
SN - 0032-745X
VL - 102
SP - 250
EP - 262
JO - Prensa Medica Argentina
JF - Prensa Medica Argentina
IS - 5
ER -