Finding what works—Patients' long-term experiences of weight maintenance post bariatric surgery: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

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MacAskill, William
Gillanders, Tobias
Wylie, Neil
Pinidiyapathirage, Janani
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2023
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Individuals with obesity can attain significant weight loss in a relatively short timeframe following bariatric surgery; however, new healthy behaviors must be sustained in perpetuity to maintain weight loss. This study investigates patients' views on the facilitators and barriers to long-term weight loss maintenance following bariatric surgery. Systematic searches of Medline, PsycINFO, and CINAHL databases identified 403 studies with 15 fitting the study inclusion criteria. Included studies were independently appraised using Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP). Data extraction and thematic synthesis generated three themes: changing food relationships, navigating inter- and intrapersonal influences, and caring health professionals. These appeared across six organizing sub-themes: building new food relationships, creating healthy habits, relationships with others, internalized stressors, finding and defining success, and ongoing patient education. Patients experienced a variety of barriers and facilitators to weight loss maintenance, with some facilitators diminishing over time. The findings demonstrate the importance of considering patients' perspectives and individual contexts to assist them to negotiate and overcome challenges to long-term weight loss maintenance post-bariatric surgery.

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Obesity Reviews

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© 2023 The Authors. Obesity Reviews published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of World Obesity Federation. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Nutrition and dietetics

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Psychology

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Endocrinology & Metabolism

obesity

treatment outcome

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MacAskill, W; Gillanders, T; Wylie, N; Pinidiyapathirage, J, Finding what works—Patients' long-term experiences of weight maintenance post bariatric surgery: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies, Obesity Reviews, 2023, pp. e13608

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