Reducing Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory defensiveness: effect of specialized instructions on retest validity in a sample of preoperative bariatric patients

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 184-188

  Walfish, Steven ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; MMPI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GEORGIA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MMPI; OBESITY, MORBID; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947386263     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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