Alternative Healthcare Delivery Strategies to Prevent Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery

"Step 1 - Low-intensity intervention that will run on a private Facebook® group. Weekly, a subtopic and related activities are posted as short text/images. Patients are encouraged to participate by viewing publications, commenting, and posting their content.~Step 2 - Will consist of an adjusted version of the Cognitive Behavior Treatment (CBT) program developed by Conceição et al. (2016). The intervention will last for 12-months and be delivered online by Facebook's functionalities, namely chat and calls. The intervention offered includes three components: 1) a psychoeducational cognitive-behavioral-based self-help manual that consists of 12 different modules. Each month a different topic will be covered and divided into four weekly sub-topics, which are supported with a set of related CBT tasks; 2) interactive call sessions with a psychologist (30 min at the beginning of each month); 3) monthly monitoring of risk-behaviors responded every session."

Treatment as Usual for bariatric surgery in portuguese public hospitals.