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Previous issue date: 2010-04-28 / Background: Severe obesity deteriorates quality of life due to physical limitations and the psychological impact of its stigma. This study evaluated the quality of life of a sample of obese people who are waiting for bariatric surgery and compared with a subset which was submitted to bariatric surgery in a public health center in Brazil. Methods: The questionnaires the Medical Outcome Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey version 2 (SF-36) and Moorehead-Ardelt Questionnaire II (M-A-QoLQII) were applied to the subsets of pre- and post-surgery subjects. The correlation of the M-A-QoLQII categories with each domain of SF-36 for the post-surgery subset was tested. Results: Mean ages of the subsets pre (n=41) and post-surgery (n=84, 3.5 years after surgery on average) were similar (43.6±10.4 and 45.4±11.1 years, respectively). Mean body mass indices of the pre- and postsurgery subjects were 52.3±8.3 kg/m2 and 32.5±6.4 (p<0.001). All of the 8 domains of the SF- 36 of the post-surgery subset corresponded to significantly better scores than those of the presurgery one. The SF-36 domains and M-A-QoLQII categories were significantly correlated except for the social aspects domain. Conclusions: Our findings reinforced that the quality of life of severely obese subjects in Brazil may be improved after bariatric surgery. We suggest that the M-A-QoLQII may be a useful method for evaluating quality of life in our population after bariatric surgery. / TEDE / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.unifesp.br:11600/9038 |
| Date | 28 April 2010 |
| Creators | Khawali, Cristina [UNIFESP] |
| Contributors | Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Vivolo, Sandra Roberta Gouvea Ferreira [UNIFESP] |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP, instname:Universidade Federal de São Paulo, instacron:UNIFESP |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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