Bariatric Surgery Outcomes in Older Women

This research is a cohort, cross-sectional, comparative, analytical, prospective study with a quantitative and qualitative approach. The research participant sample consisted of 27 older female adults, aged fifty (50) years or more (61.6 ± 5.0 years), submitted to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass bariatric surgery (BS) one (1) year prior at a reference public hospital of the Federal District’s Secretary of State of Health (SES-DF, Brazil), and able to understand, verbalize, and answer the proposed questions (inclusion criteria). Participants were excluded from the study if they had a mental illness, were under the age of fifty (50), did not undergo BS, had their BS performed procedure in less than one (1) year, if BS was not performed with the Hospital Regional da Asa Norte (HRAN), or if they not fit the inclusion criteria established by this research. This sample size (n = 27) was calculated by Raosoft software online, keeping a 95% confidence level, an 8% margin of error, population size (number of patients eligible for the inclusion criteria in 2018, n = 28), and a 50% response rate, totaling n = 24; but as we considered a 10% loss rate, the final sample size of 27. The Federal District State Department of Health (SES-DF)’s Health Sciences Teaching and Research Foundation (FEPECS)’s Research Ethics Committee (CEP), under opinion number 1.910.166, approved this study. All participants signed the informed consent form (ICF).