Video Education on Bariatric Surgery Fear and Recovery

Bursa Sevket Yilmaz Training and Research Hospital51 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this randomised clinical study is to is to determine the effect of video education given before bariatric surgery procedure on surgical fear and recovery. The main questions it aims to answer \[is/are\]: Video training reduces patients' fear of surgery. Video training improves the quality of recovery for patients. There is a comparison group: Researchers will compare the effect of the given video training to see if it has an impact on surgical fear levels and quality of recovery. In video group (Experiment group), patients will watch a video prepared by researchers before their surgery.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Bariatric Surgery

Interventions

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 53 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Individuals who have undergone bariatric surgery, * 18 years of age or older, * volunteer to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who have previously undergone bariatric surgery, * who do not attend regular post-operative follow-up appointments, * who cannot be contacted by phone, * who have an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score of III or higher, and who have a psychiatric disorder.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Surgical fear

It was used to determine the levels of fear in patients before surgery.

Time frame: Patients completed the surgical fear scale twice: once two days before the surgery and once one day before.

Quality of recovery

Quality of Recovery-15 (QoR-15): This scale evaluates five areas-emotional status, physical comfort, psychological support, physical independence, and pain-to assess patients' postoperative surgical recovery.

Time frame: Patients' quality of recovery was assessed twice, on day 1 and day 7 post-surgery.

Secondary Outcomes

Pain

Visual analog scale: It was used to measure the postoperative pain levels of patients.

Time frame: Patients' pain scores were recorded by the patients themselves a total of 3 times, on days 1, 3, and 7 postoperatively, in the mornings before taking analgesics.