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EV0626

Obesity, Women, and Mental Health

OBESITY, WOMEN, AND MENTAL HEALTH

The poster presents the protocol for a cross-sectional follow-up study designed to examine the five-year status of patients with co-occurring mental disorders who underwent bariatric surgery in 2022; no results are available yet.

The aim is to address the evidence gap in Chile regarding the long-term course of patients with co-occurring mental disorders who have undergone bariatric surgery for obesity. The poster describes obesity as a chronic disease that increases morbidity and mortality and reports that national data collected in Chile since 2000 show a greater burden of adult obesity among women, particularly those in lower socioeconomic groups. A 2022 clinical practice guideline adapted for Chile recommends that patients with mental disorders undergo a comprehensive assessment that avoids stigmatization and looks beyond weight. The design is a cross-sectional study to be conducted in 2027 among patients who underwent bariatric surgery for obesity treatment in 2022. The initial preoperative mental health assessment, performed by a psychiatrist as part of routine clinical care in 2022, will be repeated five years later by the same psychiatrist using a questionnaire developed by the research team and administered after informed consent has been obtained; body mass index (BMI) data will be taken from the most recent clinical record in 2027 or, if unavailable, from the patient's questionnaire response. The poster includes a timeline for 2027, divided into two-month periods, covering ethics approval (amendment application), case identification and contact, consent and an online questionnaire, extraction of BMI data from clinical records, statistical analysis, and manuscript preparation and submission. The poster does not provide a sample size, specify the scales to be used, or report any outcome data; at this stage, the content presented constitutes a planned research protocol.

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