Health change awareness and its association with weight loss following bariatric surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patients' ability to judge health change over time has important clinical implications for treatment, but is understudied in longitudinal contexts with meaningful health change. We assess patients' awareness of health change for 5 years following bariatric surgery, and its association with weight loss.

Method

Participants were part of the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (N = 2,027). Perceived health change for each year was assessed by comparing it to self-reports of health on the SF-36 health survey. Participants were categorized as concordant when perceived and actual self-reported health change corresponded, and as discordant when they did not correspond.

Results

Year-to-year concordance between perceived and actual self-reported healt

SUBMITTER: Wolfe MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10213125 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature