Psychological Preparation Prior to Bariatric Surgery

NHS Foundation Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity; Psychological Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Psychological preparation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01670331

STH16575

Details and patient eligibility

About

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?

Full 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.

Enrollment: 84 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• New referrals to the Sheffield Teaching Hospital Bariatric service

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speakers
• Patients that are not fit for bariatric surgery
• Patients that have already seen the bariatric psychologist

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

Psychological preparation

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients undergo 3 seminar sessions with the bariatric psychologist prior to their surgery. These will aim to prepare them for the lifestyle changes that will occur / they will have to make after surgery

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychological preparation

Surgery as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will proceed to surgery as usual. They will complete psychological assessment forms at their follow up clinic sessions.