P0352 - The need of psychoterapy in case of disease acceptation in adolescents with overweight and obesity

Abstract

Obesity is very serious problem for health care on a level of society, community and indyviduals. Psychology of health looks for intrapsychic determinants of anti health behaviors. Knowledge of these may improve the quality of treatment activities toward patients with overweight and obesity. The aim of the study was to estimation the acceptation of the disease in persons with overweight and obesity. 60 persons, 32 girls and 28 boys, with the mean of age 12,84, medium BMI factor 29 participated in the study.

Anthropometric measure – BMI factors, psychological tests of locus of health control ilness acceptation in adaptation of Juczyński used in the study.

The results show that BMI doesn't differentiate group in the acceptation of the disease parameter. There was a strict correlation between the estimation of somebody's own obesity as a disease and the acceptation of the ilness. In the group of persons with overweight and obesity there is the correlation the lower pain the higher ilness acceptation. There was a question how to inform patients about the disease - obesity and how to support them in psychological way.