ArticleSurgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery2026
Boredom and stress as momentary predictors of loss of control eating after metabolic and bariatric surgery: a longitudinal investigation.
Article in Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundLoss of control eating (LOCE) is associated with adverse clinical outcomes after metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS); however, current understanding of factors that predict LOCE is incomplete. This study is the first to investigate boredom and stress as predictors of LOCE following MBS.
objectivesTo use ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to evaluate boredom and stress as predictors of LOCE over 3 years following MBS.
settingUniversity hospitals; United States.
methodsAdults (N = 150) who underwent MBS completed a study visit followed by a 1-week EMA protocol at 1-year, 2-year, and 3-years post-MBS (with 143 participants contributing data at year 1, 110 at year 2, and 91 at year 3). During the EMA protocol, participants provided ratings of boredom, stress, and LOCE five times per day.
resultsStress and boredom were associated with LOCE when controlling for year since surgery. Regarding variability in associations over time, at the within-person level, momentary boredom predicted more severe LOCE, but only at 2 years post-MBS. Momentary stress predicted more severe LOCE at 2- and 3-years post-MBS, with no change between these years. At the between-person level, participants with higher boredom reported more severe LOCE during the EMA protocol at 2- and 3-years post-MBS, with the strongest association 3-years post-MBS. Participants with higher stress reported more severe LOCE during the EMA protocol each year following MBS, with the strongest association at 2-years post-MBS.
conclusionsBoredom and stress predict more severe LOCE, particularly 2-3 years post-MBS, highlighting this period as an opportunity for intervention.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.