Patients with severe obesity want treatments that offer access to psychological services - study

New research shows that treatment-seeking patients with severe obesity issues would prefer lifestyle modification and drug therapy over bariatric surgery, where the treatment had equivalent results and costs.

The research also highlighted the desire for obesity treatments that also offer access to psychological services, but findings from focus groups and a survey of 157 people accessing treatment also found concerns that those supports are not always readily available and that there can be a 'one-size-fits-all' policy in tackling severe obesity.