Do Bariatric Patient Support Groups Influence Short-Term Surgical Outcomes? An Investigation into the True Value of Bariatric Patient Support Groups

Monkhouse, Simon; Choudry, Mohsin; Woodcock, Sean

doi:10.1089/bari.2013.9978

Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care

2013

DOI: 10.1089/bari.2013.9978

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Do Bariatric Patient Support Groups Influence Short-Term Surgical Outcomes? An Investigation into the True Value of Bariatric Patient Support Groups

Simon Monkhouse

Mohsin Choudry

Sean Woodcock

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“…(2013) and Monkhouse et al . () have noted, methodologically this makes meta‐analyses on the efficacy of support groups challenging.…”

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‘No one is as invested in your continued good health as you should be:’ an exploration of the post‐surgical relationships between weight‐loss surgery patients and their home bariatric clinics

Meleo-Erwin

2018

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This article traces the post-surgical relationship between weight-loss surgery (WLS) patients and their home bariatric clinics. Following surgery, there is substantive drop off in patient attendance at both follow-up appointments and support groups. While barriers to follow-up are often discussed with the bariatric literature, patients themselves are typically defined as the problem. Based upon a thematic analysis of 217 blog posts and comments in two top patient-led online forums, I demonstrate that bariatric patients tell a more complex story about their post-surgical lives. I argue that WLS patients constitute a population with highly specialised medical needs that is caught between the requirements for living with surgically altered digestive systems and a lack of sufficient post-operative followup care from their home bariatric clinics. Although online forums provide spaces for patients to examine these post-operative social and clinical experiences in critical terms, seek information and get support, ultimately the conversations serve to underline the value of personal responsibility for post-operative outcomes-a framing that echoes that of the bariatric profession. This framing should be understood within a larger climate of weight-based stigma and discrimination as well as neoliberal healthism.

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“…(2013) and Monkhouse et al . () have noted, methodologically this makes meta‐analyses on the efficacy of support groups challenging.…”

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‘No one is as invested in your continued good health as you should be:’ an exploration of the post‐surgical relationships between weight‐loss surgery patients and their home bariatric clinics

Meleo-Erwin

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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Do Bariatric Patient Support Groups Influence Short-Term Surgical Outcomes? An Investigation into the True Value of Bariatric Patient Support Groups

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‘No one is as invested in your continued good health as you should be:’ an exploration of the post‐surgical relationships between weight‐loss surgery patients and their home bariatric clinics

‘No one is as invested in your continued good health as you should be:’ an exploration of the post‐surgical relationships between weight‐loss surgery patients and their home bariatric clinics

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