No correlation among expressed emotion, anxiety, stress and weight loss in patients with overweight and obesity

Background: The onset of some types of obesity may correlate with specific familial relational patterns, and expressed emotion (EE), the family life’s ‘emotional temperature’, may play a role in obesity treatment com- pliance and outcome. Objective: The aim of this study is to address the current gap in the literature about EE and obesity, assess- ing EE in a sample of patients with overweight or obesity and their relatives. A further objective is to assess patients’ weight loss, patients’ and...