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Impact of Wearing a Support Garment Following Parietal Gastrectomy

Not Applicable
Conditions
Obesity
Obesity, Morbid
Interventions
Procedure: sleeve gastrectomy
Device: support garment
Registration Number
NCT04938310
Lead Sponsor
Laval University
Brief Summary

Custom-made orthopedic support equipment and abdominal-lumbar support belts offer promising potential for several aspects affecting the health and well-being of people with obesity who choose a surgical weight loss option. However, research is needed to quantitatively document their short and long term effects on a wide range of parameters related to mobility, quality of life, lower back pain and skin maceration following parietal gastrectomy. The objective of this study is to characterize the effect of a support garment in an experimental design where a subgroup of participants will be randomized and followed for the first 12 months after a gastrectomy. The measures will be: physical activity, lower back pain, self-esteem, quality of life, skin maceration and infections. This study will scientifically document the usefulness and effectiveness of support garments throughout the weight loss surgery process.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria
  • meeting the NIH criteria for bariatric surgery
  • BMI >= 35 kg/m2
Exclusion Criteria
  • chronic pulmonary obstructive disease
  • gastric stoma
  • psychiatric disease contraindicated for bariatric surgery

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Control Groupsleeve gastrectomySleeve gastrectomy
Support garment groupsleeve gastrectomySleeve gastrectomy followed by a period of 12-month with a support garment
Support garment groupsupport garmentSleeve gastrectomy followed by a period of 12-month with a support garment
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Impact of excess skinFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Sahlgrenska Excess Skin questionnaire assesses excess skin after weight loss for specific body parts and body as a hole. Inconvenience of excess skin is evaluated on a scale from 0 to 10, higher score means higher perception that the excess skin is an inconvenience.

Social Physique AnxietyFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Social Physique Anxiety Scale, scores are from 12 to 60, higher score means more anxiety

social ideals of physical appearanceFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Sociocultural Attitude Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4 contains 6 subscales (internalization: thinness / low fat mass, internalization: muscular, internalization: general attractiveness, pressures: family, pressures: media, pressures: similar and other significant). Scores are from 1 to 5, higher scores indicating greater internalization and endorsement of societal appearance ideals

Body imageFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire contains subscales for restraint, eating concern, shape concern and weight concern. Each subscales and global scale scores are form 0 to 6, higher score means worse outcome

Severity of depression symptomsFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Beck Depression Inventory II questionnaire, scores are from 0 to 63, higher score means more severe depressive symptoms.

AnxietyFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory contains 2 subscales for usual emotional state and current emotional state. Scores are from 20 to 80, higher scores means higher anxiety state.

Quality of lifeFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Laval questionnaire contains 6 subscales for symptoms, activity/mobility, personal hygiene/clothing, emotions, social interactions, and sex life. scores are from 1 to 7, higher score means higher quality of life in each domain

persistence in wearing the support garmentFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

persistence in wearing the support garment will be calculated as a percentage by reporting the number of participants who have stopped wearing the garment compared to those who have used it.

Skin macerationFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

maceration evaluated with an in-house questionnaire reported as presence or absence of skin maceration

Excess skinFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Excess skin measured with the Iglesias scale, scores are from 1 to 5, higher score means a worse excess skin

Skin infectionFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

infection evaluated with an in-house questionnaire reported as presence or absence of skin infection

Lower back painFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Quebec back pain scale, scores are from 0 to 100, higher score means greater difficulty in carrying out activities due to low back pain

marital satisfactionFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Dyadic adjustment scale, scores are from 0 to 151, higher score indicates a higher level of marital functioning

Physical activityFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Global Physical Activity Questionnaire

Self esteemFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Rosenberg self esteem scale, scores are from 10 to 40, higher score mean a stronger self esteem

Self esteem related to physical appearanceFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

Body Esteem Scale for Adolescent and Adults contains 3 subscales for weight, appearance and attribution. Scores are from 1 to 5, higher score means higher self esteem.

gastroesophageal reflux diseaseFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease Score, scores are from 0 to 96, higher score indicates worse gastroesophageal reflux symptoms

adherence in wearing the support garmentFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

adherence in wearing the support garment evaluated with an adherence journal. Adherence will be calculated as a percentage from the total number of days the participant wears the garment out of the total for the intervention.

Body compositionFrom baseline to 12 month following sleeve gastrectomy

body fat composition assessed by impedance

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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