Multidisciplinary Approach and Counseling of the Obese Patient Before and After Bariatric Surgery

Catholic University (KU) of Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02156830

INOGMA2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project consists of qualitative interviews with all the members of the obesity team (endocrinologist, bariatric surgeon, dietician, psychologist,..) in different Flemish hospitals. These interviews have the aim to gain insight into the current practice about counseling patients with bariatric surgery, with a focus on medication counseling. This will make it possible to assess the strengths and weaknesses in the current practice of obese patients who will undergo and have undergone bariatric surgery.

Full description

The project consists of qualitative interviews with all the members of the obesity team (endocrinologist, bariatric surgeon, dietician, psychologist,..) in different Flemish hospitals. These interviews have the aim to gain insight into the current practice about counseling patients with bariatric surgery, with a focus on medication counseling. We will do a benchmarking and also qualitative analyses of the interviews using Nvivo 10.

This will make it possible to assess the strengths and weaknesses in the current practice of obese patients who will undergo and have undergone bariatric surgery.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All the members of the obesity team should be prepared to participate in the study