Animation Education Program Applied to Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Patients Effect on Patient Care Results: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Abstract

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is one of the most common bariatric surgical methods used in obesity treatment. As in every surgical operation, patients may face problems after the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy surgery. No study has been found in our country to investigate the effect of animation education applied to laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy patients on patient care results. This study investigated the effect of animation education developed for respiratory rehabilitation among sleeve gastrectomy patients on patient care results. This is a randomized controlled study. A total of 66 patients who were going to have sleeve gastrectomy were randomly divided into two groups each including 33 participants. The intervention group was provided with animation education. The control group received routine face-to-face education. Postoperative risk of respiratory complications, presence of dyspnea, nausea, and vomiting, frequency of postoperative respiratory exercises, and satisfaction with postoperative respiratory education were examined. Patients’ pain and sleep quality were examined 1 day before the surgery and on the postoperative first and fifth days. The mean postoperative fifth-day pain score of the experimental group was lower than that of the control group. The mean sleep score of the experimental group was higher than that of the control group. The early postoperative problems were less in the experimental group and all patients were satisfied with the animated respiratory education. The animation education developed for respiratory rehabilitation among sleeve gastrectomy patients promoted patient care results. Bariatric surgery nurses can use animation as an innovative education method to increase participation of patients who undergo sleeve gastrectomy surgery in health education and to improve patient care results.

The Effectiveness of Patient Education on Laparoscopic Surgery Postoperative Outcomes to Determine Whether Direct Coaching Is the Best Approach: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

“…In this systematic review of randomized controlled trials, 17 studies were included, analyzing a total of 1,831 patients. Approximately 37.5% of the laparoscopic cholecystectomy studies tested an educational video, which led to a statistically significant decrease in postoperative anxiety, pain, and nausea [18,30,32,34].…”

“…POEIs with educational videos or a presentation had the most statistically significant improvements on anxiety, pain, and fatigue after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (P < .01) [18,20,30,[32][33][34].…”

“…During the second phase, full-text review narrowed the pool to 17 total studies for this systematic review. From the 17 studies that matched the inclusion criteria, 15 studies reported a statistical significance improvement in one or more patient postoperative outcomes (Table 2) [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34].…”

“…Video education modalities involved short animations that served the goal of assuaging anxiety and operative fear. These animations were shown to the patient up to three times preoperatively and daily postoperatively for one week, which led to decreases in anxiety, pain, and nausea (P < .01) [18,34]. Likewise, preoperative multimedia presentations administered by registered nurses in the form of CDs and additional animations/brochures provide additional material to the patient prior to surgery, educating patients about the primary purpose of the surgery, preoperative examinations, and potential complications [20,30,33].…”

Nutrition and Patient Follow-up in Bariatric Surgery

“…Otherwise, complications related to nutrient deficiency may be observed due to reduced nutrient intake compared to the preoperative period. 34 - 36 Nutritional disorders following bariatric surgery can be categorized into short-term and long-term. Short-term nutritional disorders include emesis, dehydration, diarrhea, constipation, food intolerance, and dumping.…”