The Effects of Body Contouring: Abdominoplasty and Liposuction

Tampere University Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Rectus Muscle Diastasis; Unpleasant Body Contour; Abdominal Skin Elasticity; Subcutaneous Abdominal Fat

Treatments: Procedure: Abdominoplasty and liposuction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02151799

R09166

Details and patient eligibility

About

The data regarding the effects of aesthetic body contouring is insufficient. Poor results may related to preoperative psychological distress. Studies regarding eating disorder symptoms are lacking. Therefore studies using standardized and validated are needed. We decided to prospectively study quality of life, psychological distress, and eating disorder symptoms in body contouring (abdominoplasty or liposuction) patient populations. Used questionnaires are 15D quality of life, Raitasalo's modification of the Beck Inventory, and the Eating Disorder Inventory. We hypothesize that aesthetic body contouring plastic surgery has notable quality of life effects.

Enrollment: 143 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients requesting body contouring surgery

Exclusion criteria

• previous abdominal aesthetic surgery, simultaneous other aesthetic surgery at the same time

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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143 participants in 1 patient group

Body contouring surgery

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Abdominoplasty and liposuction