Psychosocial presentation of female bariatric surgery patients after multiple revisional surgeries: A qualitative study.
Bariatric surgery is currently the most viable and cost-effective treatment for obesity. This study aimed to understand, from a female patient's perspective, what contributed to not achieving or maintaining excess weight loss from a primary laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery, leading to subsequent multiple revisional bariatric surgeries. The purposive sample of participants ( N = 17 females) were over 18 years, had a primary failed laparoscopic adjustable gastric band and had more than three revisional procedures. Participants were individually interviewed and data were analysed from a grounded theory methodology to build a causal model with the core category of unrealistic expectations of bariatric surgery and other important conceptual categories.
Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Michele
M
Janse Van Vuuren
Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Esben
E
Strodl
Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Katherine M
KM
White
Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Philip D
PD
Lockie
D000328:Adult; D050110:Bariatric Surgery; D005260:Female; D015391:Gastroplasty; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012086:Reoperation; D012107:Research Design; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015431:Weight Loss
grounded theory; obesity; qualitative; revisional bariatric surgery