Table 3.

A list of sixteen questions (yes/no) were asked of our cohort. We had a total of 154 responders, divided into two groups: those who stated they wanted a postoperative support group (n = 88) and those who did not (n = 64). This table tallies the number of positive (YES) responses to each question by the group. We performed contingency analysis (chi-squared test) for each question by group (p values for each test are given in the final column). This revealed that the n = 88 responders who wanted the support group were statistically more likely than those who were not interested in a bariatric support group to answer “yes” to question numbers 6, 12, and 14. This did not survive multiple comparisons (the Bonferroni adjustment).

		Number who agreed		Chi-square test p value
		Want support group (n = 88)	Do not want support group (n = 64)
Q1	I have not lost as much weight as I had hoped	22	40	0.171
Q2	I had lost a lot of weight at first, but have now regained some/all	31	52	0.265
Q3	I have lost too much weight	1	0	0.239
Q4	I am finding it difficult to maintain the original weight loss	22	37	0.338
Q5	I am actively dieting to keep the weight off	13	26	0.198
Q6	I am struggling to keep the weight off	18	43	0.018
Q7	The health problems that I had before the surgery did not improve as much as I had hoped	16	18	0.507
Q8	I am taking more medications that I had hoped to be needing after surgery	10	16	0.679
Q9	My relationship with food has not improved	21	31	0.757
Q10	I miss food/eating	10	14	0.962
Q11	I have looked to other things in my life to replace what food used to provide, e.g., alcohol	5	11	0.353
Q12	I am not happy with the way I look	15	36	0.412
Q13	I do not spend as much time as I would like taking care of myself	10	13	0.885
Q14	I have found returning to work difficult	0	6	0.033
Q15	The surgery has negatively affected my relationship with my partner/spouse	5	10	0.469
Q16	The surgery has negatively affected my relationship with other people, e.g., friends/family	4	14	0.069