NCT03796325

Depressive State After Sleeve Gastrectomy

Effect of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Obese Patients With Depressive State

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assuta Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Obesity is an epidemic disease that continues to increase causing morbidity and mortality to those who suffer. Obese patients suffer, frequently, from a depressive state, anger, and emotional disturbances. It cannot be recognized and depression causes obesity affecting eating habits or obesity causes depression based on physical, social and occupational limitations. Many times we see that obese patients are discriminated in every sense of daily life increasing their depressive state. The best treatment for obesity is bariatric surgery that causes a sufficient weight loss to correct sleep apnea, diabetes, hypertension, and many other co-morbidity. The study is based on elucidating the effect of sleeve gastrectomy in obese patients suffering from depression

Detailed description

The patients were classified as suffering from a depressive state before the bariatric surgery and followed until 3 years after surgery, the data was collected by personal interview or telephone survey.

Conditions

• Obesity, Morbid
• Depression

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-31
• Completion: 2018-12-22
• First posted: 2019-01-08
• Last updated: 2025-03-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel