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Patients' Perceptions of Short-Term Recovery After a Gastric Bypass
- Source :
- Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing. 33:681-688
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Purpose To explore gastric bypass patients' perceptions of their postoperative recovery over 1 month. Design A standardized questionnaire, the postoperative recovery profile, was used. Methods Postoperative recovery profile is a multi-item questionnaire for self-assessment of general postoperative recovery. Participants were patients who had undergone gastric bypass surgery (n = 39). The changes in recovery between 1 day and 1 month postsurgery were evaluated by a statistical method developed specifically for analyzing changes in paired ordered data over time. Findings Most of the symptoms and/or functions were significantly improved on a group level. The most marked improvement was to pain and sleeping difficulties followed by mobilization. In terms of the psychological items, the proportion of patients who indicated no problems was high at both endpoints. The items that deviated from the improvement pattern were appetite changes and gastrointestinal function which demonstrated a relatively high proportion of deterioration, and the individual variability was prominent. Conclusions There is a need for interventions to improve recovery on a group as well as an individual level.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Sleep Wake Disorders
Self-Assessment
medicine.medical_specialty
Gastric bypass
Gastric Bypass
Psychological intervention
Postoperative recovery
medicine.disease_cause
03 medical and health sciences
Postoperative Complications
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Medicine
Longitudinal Studies
Postoperative Period
030212 general & internal medicine
Group level
Pain, Postoperative
Models, Statistical
030504 nursing
business.industry
Gastric bypass surgery
Middle Aged
Individual level
Medical–Surgical Nursing
Patient perceptions
Physical therapy
Female
0305 other medical science
business
Gastrointestinal function
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10899472
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a56ca176f3eccc0c504d03a382784f65