Aspectos psicológicos em indivíduos com sobrepeso e obesidade

Abstract

To evaluate psychological symptoms in a sample with weight excess. A transversal study with 184 adults featuring overweight and weight, who are attended to in a multidisciplinary program on feed reeducation. Beck´s scale, Periodic Feed Compulsion and Silhouette Figure. Mean depression, anxiety and hopelessness of the sample was \nrespectively low, low and moderate. Item by item analyses by Beck´s Scale were performed, with no difference with regard to gender, excepting one item. Psychological symptoms exist in overweight people and psychological factors in the structuring of interventions for such a population are highly relevant.