Cristin-resultat-ID: 612212
Sist endret: 31. mars 2011, 15:01
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2010
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2010

"My quality of life is worse compared to my earlier life" : living with chronic problems after weight loss surgery

Bidragsytere:
  • Karen Synne Groven
  • Målfrid Råheim og
  • Gunn Engelsrud

Tidsskrift

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being
ISSN 1748-2623
e-ISSN 1748-2631
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2010
Volum: 5
Hefte: 4
Sider: 1 - 15
Open Access

Importkilder

ForskDok-ID: r10020354

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Plastisk kirurgi • Generell patologi, patologisk anatomi

Emneord

Fedme • Kvinner • Kronisk

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Tittel

"My quality of life is worse compared to my earlier life" : living with chronic problems after weight loss surgery

Sammendrag

Weight loss surgery is commonly regarded as improving individuals? health and social life, and resulting in a happier and more active life for those defined as ?morbidly obese.? However, some researchers have started to doubt whether these positive outcomes apply to everyone and this article explores this doubt further. More specifically, we focus on the experiences of women whose life situation became worse after weight loss surgery. The material draws on qualitative interviews of five Norwegian women undergoing the irreversible gastric bypass procedure. Our findings illustrate that the women lived seemingly ?normal? lives prior to the surgery with few signs of illness. Worries about future illness as well as social stigma because of their body shape motivated them to undergo weight loss surgery. After the surgery, however, their situation was profoundly changed and their lives were dramatically restricted. Chronic pain, loss of energy, as well as feelings of shame and failure for having these problems not only limited their social lives but it also made them less physically active. In addition, they had difficulties taking care of their children, and functioning satisfactorily at work. Accordingly, the women gradually felt more ?disabled,? regarding themselves as ?outsiders? whose problems needed to be kept private. The results highlight some ?subtle? consequences of weight loss surgery, particularly the shame and stigma experienced by those whose lives became dramatically worse. Living in a society where negative impacts of weight loss surgery are more or less neglected in research as well as in the public debate the women seemed to suffer in silence. Their problems were clearly present and felt in the body but not talked about and shared with others.

Bidragsytere

Karen Synne Groven

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Det medisinske fakultet ved Universitetet i Oslo

Målfrid Råheim

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for samfunnsmedisinske fag ved Universitetet i Bergen
Aktiv cristin-person

Gunn Helene Engelsrud

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Gunn Engelsrud
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for lærerutdanning og friluftslivsstudier ved Norges idrettshøgskole
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Det medisinske fakultet ved Universitetet i Oslo
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