Background

It has been recommended that standardized instruments be included as part of a presurgical psychological evaluation of patients seeking bariatric surgery. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPIs) are among the most widely used for this purpose within bariatric surgery and in the field of clinical psychology generally speaking. A new version of the test, the MMPI-3, was released in 2020 with updated norms and new scales; however, the test manual does not have any data to support its use for the evaluation of patients seeking bariatric surgery.We intend to present for 1-hour as a small panel. The first segment of this panel will spend approximately 20 minutes introducing the MMPI-3. This segment will include information on what has been changed and updated on the test, with a focus on the new Eating Concerns (EAT) scale and updated normative data. This segment will also compare and contrast the MMPI-3 from the MMPI-2-RF. The second segment (15 minutes) will then share psychometric data on a large sample (> 700) patients who were patients seeking bariatric surgery and were also administered the MMPI-3 that will demonstrate how the test is reliable and valid to use as a standardized measure for the evaluation of patients seeking bariatric surgery. The last segment (15 minutes) will share one or two case examples to demonstrate the clinical utility and integration of test data within the context of a presurgical psychological evaluation of patients seeking bariatric surgery. We will reserve 5 minutes for questions and answers.