Volume 27, Issue 138, August 2023

Quality of life in patients who underwent bariatric surgery at a tertiary hospital in Madina, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study

Nouf Abdulaziz Alkalbi^1♦, Sami Abdo Radman Al-Dubai¹, Abdulhamid Awadh Alharbi², Maha Mubarak Almutairi¹, Zahrah Ibrahim Alsharif¹, Masheal Abdullah Abdulmaqsud¹, Arwa Atiah Almalki¹, Zeidan Abdu Zeidan³

¹Joint Program of Preventive Medicine Post Graduate Studies, Ministry of Health, Al-Madinah 42376, Saudi Arabia
²Surgery Department, Bariatric Unit, King Fahad General Hospital, Ministry of Health, Al-Madinah 42351, Saudi Arabia
³Preventive Medicine Department, Taibah University, Al-Madinah 42353, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Joint Program of Preventive Medicine Post Graduate Studies, Ministry of Health, Al-Madinah 42376, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: Body mass index and comorbidities determine surgical indications for bariatric surgery. The study aimed to evaluate health-related quality of life (QoL) in patients following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy to determine their perceptions of the surgical outcome and identify potential QoL-related factors. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional study, conducted at King Fahad Hospital, Al-Madina, comprised 383 patients aged ≥18 years who had undergone bariatric surgery ≥3 months earlier. Sociodemographic and surgical complication data were collected using the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)-QoL. Results: “Social functioning” had the highest mean (78.7 ± 19), followed by “role limitations due to physical health” and “pain” (76.8 ± 36.4 and 76.2 ± 25.3, respectively). One-third of the patients had diabetes mellitus, and two-thirds had hypertension. Older age, higher educational level, marriage, shorter post-operative period, and absence of complications were associated with higher scores in the “role limitations due to emotional issues” domain. Younger age, higher income, a more extended post-operative period, and being single were associated with higher scores in the “physical functioning” domain. Conclusion: Age, educational level, income, marital status, history of chronic disease, time since surgery, and complications were associated with QoL. Physical health functioning, emotional issues, energy/fatigue, and general health all had high QoL scores. Gastroesophageal reflux disease, gallbladder stones, and malnutrition were common complications post-operatively.

Keywords: Bariatric surgery, gastric bypass, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, obesity, quality of life

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e334ms3180

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i138/e334ms3180

Published: 14 August 2023