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psychological, multimodal group-based treatment, in collaboration with a general hospital, for morbidly obese patients awaiting surgery. This report includes a brief description of two pilot cohort studies in which treatment outcome of this group- based treatment was examined, both for participants opting for surgery and for obese participants who did not. Chapter 6 presents a cross-sectional cohort study, aimed at identifying post-operative demographic, behavioral and psychological factors asso- ciated with suboptimal weight loss in participants who have had bariatric surgery. We hypothesized that as the presence of eating disorder pathology may interfere with the ability to adhere to the recommended postsurgical eating pattern, reported post-operative eating disorder pathology was associated with suboptimal weight loss,
Part IV consists of the Chapters 7, 8 and 9. In Chapter 7 we provide a general discussion of our main findings, limitations and clinical implications. We conclude this thesis with two summaries, a general summary in Chapter 8, followed by a Dutch summary in Chapter 9.