Background: Obesity decreases the quality of sexual life as well as the overall quality of life. Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment method for obesity, it is better than the medi-cal treatment options. However, there is not sufficient number of studies about the effects of bariatric surgery on the quality of sexual life yet. Aims: So we aimed to research about the ef-fects of bariatric surgery, the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) method which is being more and more often applied, on the sexual functions, depression and quality of life in our study.
Materials and Methods: Out of all patients who had LSG surgery due to obesity earlier in our center, 22 applicable male patients were taken under research after a brief exclusion cri-teria application. Age, height, weight,body mass index (BMI) data of these patients were record-ed before the operation. IIEF, Beck depression inventory Short form-36 were filled for the pa-tients. Also, the weight loss amounts and BMI decreases of the patients after the operation were recorded.
Results: Statistically meaningful increases were observed in the post-operation Erectile, Orgasmic Function, Intercourse Satisfaction, Overall satisfaction, PCS-MCS scores compared to the pre-operation. No statistically meaning-ful change was observed in the post-operation sexual desire averages when compared to pre-operation. When compared with the pre-opera-tion values; meaningful decreases were detected in the post-operation BECK depression inven-tory scores. Conclusion: We think that the bar-iatric surgery not only causes serious amount of weight loss, but also enhances the sexual func-tion and the quality of life among males.
Keywords: obesity; sexual function; bariat-ric surgery; sleeve gastrectomy; quality of life
Abstract
Background: Obesity decreases the quality of sexual life as well as the overall quality of life. Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment method for obesity, it is better than the medi-cal treatment options. However, there is not sufficient number of studies about the effects of bariatric surgery on the quality of sexual life yet. Aims: So we aimed to research about the ef-fects of bariatric surgery, the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) method which is being more and more often applied, on the sexual functions, depression and quality of life in our study.
Materials and Methods: Out of all patients who had LSG surgery due to obesity earlier in our center, 22 applicable male patients were taken under research after a brief exclusion cri-teria application. Age, height, weight,body mass index (BMI) data of these patients were record-ed before the operation. IIEF, Beck depression inventory Short form-36 were filled for the pa-tients. Also, the weight loss amounts and BMI decreases of the patients after the operation were recorded.
Results: Statistically meaningful increases were observed in the post-operation Erectile, Orgasmic Function, Intercourse Satisfaction, Overall satisfaction, PCS-MCS scores compared to the pre-operation. No statistically meaning-ful change was observed in the post-operation sexual desire averages when compared to pre-operation. When compared with the pre-opera-tion values; meaningful decreases were detected in the post-operation BECK depression inven-tory scores. Conclusion: We think that the bar-iatric surgery not only causes serious amount of weight loss, but also enhances the sexual func-tion and the quality of life among males.
Keywords: obesity; sexual function; bariat-ric surgery; sleeve gastrectomy; quality of life