Table I.

Difficulty in achieving individual elements of preoperative care

Element of perioperative care	Mean difficulty (1–5)
Organization of specialist consultation	2.17 ±1.06
Organization of psychological consultation	2.46 ±1.55
Organization of dietary consultation	2.32 ±1.4
Achieving preoperative weight loss	3.06 ±0.94
Compliance with preoperative recommendations concerning physical activity	3.18 ±1.08
Compliance with preoperative recommendations concerning stopping smoking tobacco	3.47 ±1.28
Organization of access to a support group for bariatric surgery patients	2.53 ±1.35
Organization of educational lectures	2.38 ±1.2
Providing access to educational materials, leaflets, diaries, etc.	2 ±1.17