Mobile Application for Bariatric Surgery Patients

Akdeniz University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mobile Health; EHealth; Complication; Quality of Life; Bariatric Surgery; Obesity; Self Management

Treatments: Other: e-BariS app group; Other: Self-Monitoring Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05428618

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: One of the alternative ways, as a result of the increasing demand for health services and the inadequacy of meeting the increasing needs, is mobile health applications. According to TUIK 2019 data, the rate of having mobile phones in households is 98.7%. With the development of technology, all information can be integrated into the mobile phone, and mobile applications allow the patient to give data from the environment in which he lives and to evaluate himself. Self-assessment and monitoring of the patient enable the patient to participate in his/her self-care, supports self-management behaviors, and improves their quality of life.

Objective: It was aimed to develop a mobile support application for patients undergoing bariatric surgery and to evaluate the effect of application use on patients' self-management, quality of life, and clinical outcomes.

Method: In the first stage;

• Preparing the information to be included in the mobile health application that is planned to be developed and evaluating the quality of the content,
• Parallel to this, the adaptation of the "Bariatric Surgery Self-Management Behaviors Scale" into Turkish and the evaluation of its validity and reliability.
• Design of the mobile application, transferring the educational content to the mobile application,
• It is aimed to evaluate the technical suitability and usability of the mobile application.

In the second stage, it was aimed to conduct a randomized controlled study to determine the effect of the developed mobile application on the self-management, quality of life and clinical outcomes of the patients.

The developed mobile application will be introduced to patients at discharge after bariatric surgery. Rating scales will be administered to patients at the end of one, three, and six months after surgery. These scales are the Bariatric Surgery Self-Management Behaviors Scale and the Moorehead-Ardelt Quality of Life Scale-II.

Conclusion: It is expected that the mobile application-based education to be developed for bariatric surgery will improve the patients' post-surgical self-management, increase their quality of life and decrease the early complication rates.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Speaking and understanding Turkish,
• Being literate
• Having the ability to use a smartphone,
• Having a mobile phone with IOS or Android software,
• Having internet access,
• Having consented to download the mobile application to the mobile phone,
• Between the ages of 18-65,
• Patients undergoing bariatric surgery for the first time.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with vision or hearing problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

e-BariS app Group

Experimental group

Description:

"Self-Monitoring Module" and "Patient Education Module"

Treatment:

Other: e-BariS app group

Self-Monitoring Group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

"Self-Monitoring Module"

Treatment:

Other: Self-Monitoring Group