Education and Information for Bariatric Surgery Patients

"1. Patients who were planned to undergo sleeve gastrectomy surgery were informed about the perioperative period when they came to the outpatient clinic2-4weeks before surgery and were educated about the exercises to be performed before and after surgery. The content of this education included pain management, breathing exercises,foot rotation, and leg exercises. In addition, the education book prepared by the researchers was given to the patients to make the education and information permanent until the day of surgery.~2. When the patient was hospitalized, anxiety level with the Trait Anxiety scale and pain level with VAS were determined one day before surgery.~3. Postoperatively, the patient's pain level before analgesics every 4-6hours for 2days, the patient's anxiety level with the State Anxiety Scale one day after surgery, the development of complications in the postoperative period, vital signs were evaluated, and the duration of hospitalization was recorded."