NCT03792412

BagEL - Bariatric Patients in Primary Care: Post-operative Nutrition and Lifestyle Management

BagEL - Bariatric Patients in Primary Care: Post-operative Nutrition and Lifestyle Management Evaluation of a Post-operative Nutrition and Lifestyle Management for Lifelong Care of Post-bariatric Patients in Primary Care

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 220 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There is a growing number of patients undergoing bariatric surgery requiring lifelong follow-up. BagEL (Bariatric Patients in Primary Care: Post-operative Nutrition and Lifestyle Management) is a survey to evaluate a newly developed structured disease management program including nutrition and lifestyle management in primary care.

Detailed description

During last decades the prevalence of obesity is growing. Therefore, the number of bariatric procedures are also increasing. Frequent complications after surgery are nutritional deficiencies (e.g. vitamins, minerals, protein) which require mandatory long-term follow-up. So far adequate follow-up programs are only provided in specialized bariatric centers like in the outpatient clinic for obesity at the General Hospital of Vienna. These programs are focusing on prevention and premature identification of deficiencies. Rising numbers of bariatric-surgical procedures pose a challenge for bariatric centres because of the accumulating numbers of bariatric patients requesting follow-up at least once a year. To provide full coverage an appropriate possibility would be to transfer follow up to non-specialised facilities including general practitioners and family doctors using a so called "pass" providing practical treatment recommendations (necessary follow-up appointments, laboratory blood tests, questions regarding nutrition and lifestyle behavior). To our best knowledge such a structured post-bariatric care management program in primary care does not exist by now. The aim of this study is therefore the evaluation of such a pass.

Conditions

• Bariatric Surgery Candidate
• Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Usability Questionnaire	Patients receive the usability questionnaire and a structured nutrition and lifestyle program for post-bariatric follow-up visits. Twice in six months the patients visit their family doctor and hand over the usability questionnaire to evaluate the structured follow-up program for postbariatric patients. Family doctors fill out the questionnaire and returns it to the investigator.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-22
• Primary completion: 2019-05-01
• Completion: 2020-01-01
• First posted: 2019-01-03
• Last updated: 2019-01-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria