NCT01670331

Psychological Preparation Prior to Bariatric Surgery

Psychological Preparation Prior to Bariatric Surgery: A Feasibility Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 84 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Is it feasible to perform a randomized controlled trial to assess whether or not psychological preparation seminars prior to bariatric (weight loss) surgery are beneficial to the investigators patients?

Detailed description

This is a feasibility study, assessing how possible it would be to perform a randomized controlled trial to see if preoperative psychological or mental health problems impacts on length of stay, short and long term health outcomes, weight loss, and if preoperative counseling has any effect.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Psychological Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Psychological preparation	Session 1: Help patients understand their relationship to food. Patients complete a 'food diary' as 'homework'. Give information about lifestyle changes after surgery. Presents the model of 'stress' and how it influences 'overeating', to develop a more balanced lifestyle and better QoL. Session 2: 'Intervention' using Compassion Focussed Therapy model to understand relationship to food from their diary. Help develop a 'minimising overeating plan' (a 'relapse prevention' plan). Help learn to meet needs in other ways than food. Session 3: Focus on physical body. Current body image, explore hopes and expectations for after surgery. Consider how to manage changes to social reactions and sexual relationships that may occur.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2017-02-01
• First posted: 2012-08-22
• Last updated: 2017-11-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom