Relationship between depressive symptoms and bariatric surgery: a systematic review
Keywords:
Emotionality, Bariatric surgery, DepressionAbstract
Obesity has become a public health epidemic accompanied by well-established medical complexities, but the impacts on emotionality associate obesity with anxiety, depression and low self-esteem, allowing obese people to experience insecurity, sadness, fear of isolation and rejection. In addition to conventional treatments, bariatric surgery has been highlighted as a procedure that causes sustained weight loss, but the effects on emotionality are still uncertain. Thus, the objective of this systematic literature review was to evaluate the role of surgery in post-surgical depression, in order to verify whether there is an increase in depressive levels after the procedure is carried out or whether these impact on future weight regain. Active searches were performed in the PubMed database using specific keywords published in the last year. Of the 64 articles found, only 9 were related to the theme and the results point to an inconsistency in the presence of post-surgical depression, revealing the need for standardized guidelines in the follow-up and impact of the results after bariatric surgery.
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