Effectiveness of Nursing Intervention Program on Body Image, Marital Satisfaction and Quality of Life Among Women Post Bariatric Surgery.

Background: Bariatric surgery has emerged as the most successful and long-lasting treatment for morbid obesity. Many women who have undergone bariatric surgery experience a distorted perception of their bodies, which can lead to severe psychological disturbances following the procedure which in turn influence negatively on marital relation and their quality of life. Aim of the study: this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing intervention program on body image, marital satisfaction and quality of life among women post bariatric surgery. Research design: A quasi-experimental design was conducted. Setting: This study was conducted at outpatient clinic& general surgery department at University Hospital in Benha. Subject: A purposive sample of available 50 women who underwent bariatric surgery& met the determined inclusive criteria. Tools: Tool I demographic& clinical data structured interview questionnaire. Tool II: Multidimensional body self-relations questionnaire appearance scale (MBSRQ-AS). Tool III: Enrich Marital Satisfaction scale. Tool IV: Moorehead-Ardelt Quality of Life Questionnaire Results: At pre and post program implementation, there was a highly statistically significant difference in the total mean score of different domains of body image satisfaction, marital satisfaction, and quality of life among the studied women, and a highly statistically significant positive correlation between the different domains (P < 0.001). Conclusion: intervention nursing program sessions had highly statistically significant positive effect on improving body image satisfaction, marital satisfaction and quality of life among the studied obese women underwent bariatric surgery. Recommendation: Further researches should be conducted to investigate expectations from bariatric surgery& to evaluate psychological health status pre- and post-surgery to gain the potential benefits regarding body image satisfaction, marital satisfaction &quality of life and overall success.