Quality of life of patients undergoing bariatric surgery - teaching hospital, Pernambuco - Brazil

Abstract

The quality of life was assessed through the Bariatric Analysis and Reporting Outcome System (BAROS) in the postoperative period of patients who underwent bariatric surgery, at the Prof. Fernando Figueira Institute of Integral Medicine -IMIP, a reference center of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) in the Northeast of Brazil. This was a crosssectional, retrospective descriptive study of 66 patients who underwent Roux-en-Y gastroplasty between October 2013 and January 2014, and who were being followed-up. The variables studied before and after surgery were: body mass index (BMI), comorbidities and quality of life. For statistical analysis, the Macnemar and Stuart-Maxwell test was used, adopting the significance level of 5%. Among the 66 patients in the preoperative period, 87.9% had a BMI distribution of grade III obesity. By order of prevalence the comorbidities were: self-reported anxiety 87.9%, orthopedic disorders 86.4% and sleep disturbances 69.7%. In the postoperative period of the study sample, 12.1% of patients with grade III obesity were identified, with a statistical significance (p <0.001). More than 50% presented improved or very improved evaluations in aspects of self-esteem, physical, social, work and sexual; 100% referred to the quality of life as better or much better. It was concluded that bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for grade III obesity, as well as its comorbidities, and since it was evaluated through the BAROS protocol, it showed a positive impact on the quality of life of ex-obese patients.