Table 2.

Psychosocial factors and eating behaviors among bariatric surgery and non-surgery candidates (N = 95)

Variable	Non-surgery patients (n = 70)	Surgery candidates (n = 25)
Self-rated health (excellent/very good/good/fair/poor) (%)	2.7/8.0/36.0/38.7/14.7	8.0/20.0/44.0/20.0/8.0*
PTSD (%)	31.4	20.0
Depression (%)	48.7	28.0*
Anxiety (%)	31.4	32.0
Binge eating at least 1× week (%)	82.3	88.0
Substance abuse (%)	3.0	0.0
Schizophrenia (%)	3.0	0.0
Obsessive compulsive disorder (%)	7.0	28.0*
Bipolar (%)	3.0	4.0
Eating speed (slow/medium/fast) (%)	6.7/49.3/44.0	0.0/36.0/64.0*
12-month weight loss expectation (0–10/10–25/25–50/50–100/100+) (%)	4.0/16.0/53.3/22.7/4.0	12.0/8.0/36.0/36.0/8.0
Confidence in weight loss (0–10 scale)	8.6 (1.7)	9.1 (2.0)
Importance of weight loss (0–10 scale)	7.8 (2.5)	8.2 (2.8)

PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder

*p<0.05