Women's lived experiences of sex hormones and life-related to bariatric surgery: an interpretative qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The study aimed to explore the lived experiences of women with severe obesity before and after undergoing bariatric surgery with a special focus on possible effects of changed sex hormone levels.

Design

A qualitative interview study with transcribed text analysis based on Gadamer's hermeneutics.

Setting

Regional hospital and outpatient bariatric clinic in central Sweden.

Participants

Ten women (age 23-38 years) having undergone Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery between 2016 and 2019 were interviewed.

Results

The transcribed interviews were analysed according to Gadamer's hermeneutics. Text horizons, interpreter horizons and fact horizons were derived and formed the fusions 'Recognition of unhealthy body weight', 'Dealing with other people's opi

SUBMITTER: Paul R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10314659 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature