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Volume 7 Issue 8 (August, 2019)

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Quality Of Life Changes amongst Obese Subjects Undergoing Bariatric Surgery
Garima Sharma, Ashish Ahuja, Harsimran Singh, Prabhdeep S Nain, Rupesh Chaudhary

Background: Obesity has emerged as one of the most serious public health concerns in the 21st century.  This epidemic rise in obesity fueled the debate to classify it as a disease and in 1985 obesity was officially classified as a disease. The study aims to assess long-term effectiveness of bariatric surgery on quality of life of obese adults. Materials and methods: This study was conducted in department of surgery, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana on patients with morbid  obesity. These patients were followed up for 6 months from the date of surgery. The quality of life was assessed using WHO Quality of WHOQOLBREF scale The WHOQOL-BREF version is a self-administered psychometrically sound cross cultural instrument developed in 15 centers across developing and developed countries. Comparison of quantitative variables between the variables was done using paired Student t-test. A probability value (p value) less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Out of 30, 21 (70%) patients were females and rest 9 (30%) were males. Mean age of patients was 42.8 ± 11.8 years. The General domain of all patients were checked preoperatively as well at 3rd and 6th months after bariatric surgery which was 5.20±.830 and 5.33±1.030 respectively with a pre-op value of 5.00±0.830.The environmental domain levels of all patients were checked preoperatively as well at 3rd and 6th months after bariatric surgery. Conclusion: Obesity   affects quality of life and leads to psychological problems like low self esteem or even depression. Bariatric surgery helps in significant weight loss and BMI reduction leading to a better quality of life improving the social, physical and psychological domains.
Key words: Bariatric, psychological, morbid, effectiveness

Received: 13 March, 2019                                         Revised:  10 July 2019                              Accepted: 11 July 2019

Corresponding author: Dr. Garima Sharma, Associate professor, Dept of Physiology, DMCH, Ludhiana, Punjab, India; 

This article may be cited as: Sharma G, Ahuja A, Singh H, Nain PS, Chaudhary R. Quality Of Life Changes amongst Obese Subjects Undergoing Bariatric Surgery. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2019;7(8): 144-148.

 
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