The NURLIFE Program for the Management of Bariatric Surgery Patients

University of Évora

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Nurse-Patient Relations; Bariatric Surgery Candidate

Treatments: Behavioral: NURLIFE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06020105

1635/22

Details and patient eligibility

About

to analyze the influence of the new intervention in the perioperative period and impact on several clinical and humanistic endpoints. In the evaluation phase, an experimental, controlled, and randomized study (RCT) will be developed, with an intervention group (IG) and a control group (CG). The CG will receive the usual care and the IG, will receive the intervention for an expected period of one year. This project aims to be the first study to investigate the effect of a long-term specialized case-management intervention (face-to-face and e-health) in patients who are candidates for bariatric surgery during all the perioperative periods

Full description

The "nurse-led case-management" intervention program will allow to improve the management of the bariatric surgery process by patients in collaboration with the health team, with a view to improving health and adopting healthy lifestyles, which enhance better results. This intervention program is expected to be a mixed program with e-health technologies. Behavioural changes will be predictably one of the main objectives, with perception of the barriers and facilitators of them, from the perspective of training the patient for the physiological changes that result from the entire process of bariatric surgery. Thus, it is expected that the primary focus of the program will be health education and motivation for lifestyle changes, the promotion of healthy lifestyles and promotion of physical activity, with a view to improving anthropometric data and metabolic risk factors, as well as smoking cessation and alcoholic habits. As such, the contribution of a multidisciplinary team that is managed by a case-manager appears to be the most efficient intervention, and this activity aims to determine the set of procedures and their temporal sequence, the skills of the team, the flow of patients through the different elements of the team and the duration of the program.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• As inclusion criteria, patients should be enrolled for bariatric surgery at the hospital
• Agree to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Surgical complications
• Psychiatric diseases and neurological disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention will be a combination of consultations and face-to-face follow-ups, with teleconsultations, based on other observational and experimental studies. The intervention program includes monitoring for one year of patients enrolled in the bariatric surgery consultation, with criteria for surgeries.

Treatment:

Behavioral: NURLIFE

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will only carry out the assessments and will be offered the same intervention as the intervention group at the end of the intervention.