Psychosocial presentation of female bariatric surgery patients after multiple revisional surgeries: A qualitative study. (September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Janse Van Vuuren, Michele; Strodl, Esben; White, Katherine M; Lockie, Philip D
• Is Part Of: Journal of health psychology. Volume 23:Number 10(2018)
• Page Start: 1261
• Page End: 1272
• Publication Date: 2018-09
• Subjects: grounded theory -- obesity -- qualitative -- revisional bariatric surgery; Clinical health psychology -- Periodicals; 613.019
• DOI: 10.1177/1359105316648673
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1359-1053

Abstract

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.