Table 6.
Aspects of QOL one year after LSG.
| Aspects of QOL | Scoring |
P value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not at all | Just a little | Not so much | Much | Too much | ||
| Feeling happy | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 31 | .040 |
| Satisfied with the new body image | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 36 | |
| Improved self esteem | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 35 | |
| Feeling sexually attractive | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 36 | |
| Married people having better or regular sex | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 32 | |
| Spending more time with friends | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 35 | |
| Nervousness, embracing by unimportant matters | 33 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hearing sarcasm or teasing by others | 37 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Negative thoughts | 33 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Decreased appetite | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 39 | |
| Ease to take any posture comfortably such as crossing their legs | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 33 | |
Note: Half of the patients were unhappy before the operation, but twelve months later (N = 31, 77.5%) of them became much happier, regarding satisfaction with their body image; noticeable improvement occurred, (N = 36, 90%) of them were satisfied with their new body image. While, most of them have had low self-esteem and(N27, 67.5%)of the patients had no self-esteem prior to the surgery, 12 months later (N = 35, 87.5%) felt great improvement in their self-esteem (p-value = .040). A significant decrease in appetite was noticed in (N = 39, 97.5%) of the patients after 12 months.