Volume 28, Issue 146, April 2024

Patient satisfaction and quality of life following bariatric and small incision laparoscopic surgery: A systematic review

Abdulaziz Khaled Alrasheed¹, Alwaleed Sami Alotaibi², Abdulwahab Abdulaziz Alhussain³, Bandar Alhaydan³

¹General Surgery Consultant, First Health Cluster, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
²Saudi Board General Surgery Resident, First Health Cluster, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
³Medical Intern, Faculty of Medicine, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: The global obesity pandemic is still getting worse. The only effective treatment for morbid obesity that produces significant and long-lasting weight loss, the resolution of obesity-related comorbidities, and long-term improvement in quality of life is bariatric surgery. Method: A search was conducted between 2015 and 2023 through PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar for studies that examined quality of life, or patient satisfaction, as an outcome measure in patients who had undergone bariatric surgery of any kind and were following up for at least six years. The study excluded data on weight loss that was not consistently reported or study findings unrelated to quality of life or patient satisfaction. Results: According to Grönroos et al., (2021) increased weight loss was associated with improved QoL. Mean DSQoL scores after 7 years significantly improved as compared with baseline, in contrast to median HRQoL ratings. The 2017 study by De-Jong and Hinnen, (2017) demonstrates that further therapies are required to improve postoperative adherence to behavioural instructions. Ten years after the surgery, patients' overall mental health, neuroticism, and fear of intimacy all showed a discernible fall from their preoperative levels, according to a 2016 study by (Canetti et al., 2016). At the end of the follow-up, participants in Askari et al., (2020) study reported feeling better, exercising more, and developing healthier eating habits. Conclusion: Improved QoL was linked to increased weight loss, and bariatric surgery produced a significant long-term improvement in QoL. Postoperative adherence to behavioural guidelines and psychosocial functioning need adjunctive therapy.

Keywords: Bariatric surgery, quality of life, patients satisfaction, weight loss

Medical Science, 2024, 28, e27ms3331

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v28i146.e27ms3331

Published: 12 April 2024