Gilmartin, S, Maclean, J and Edwards, J (2019) Body types following obesity surgery and skin re-countouring: a secondary level of analysis. Journal of Surgery and Surgical Research, 5 (1). 036-042. ISSN 2455-2968
Abstract
Purpose: To identify body types and normative transformation after obesity surgery and body re-contouring.
Methods: A qualitative secondary analysis was conducted involving 20 transcripts, extracted from one primary dataset containing interview data. A model of empirically grounded type construction was employed and adapted to analyse data.
Results: Four emerging body types were revealed including type 1 ‘identity disruption’, type 2 ‘overcoming identity lag’, type 3 ‘refining appearance’ and type 4 ‘transformed new me’. The findings shed light on the normative transformation process and the huge challenges that patients encounter. It is crucial to acknowledge that body types 1 and 2 experienced identity disruption and emotional turmoil, post body re-contouring surgery. Contrastingly, types 3 and 4 showed strong determination and resilience throughout the transformation process despite embodied turbulence
Conclusion: This study makes plain the huge rupture to identity, appearance and body image that respondents experienced post-surgery, with the majority in a constant changing body and state of flux. This result provides nurses and allied health professionals with new research and insight to develop novel body esteem educational programmes to empower this particular patient group.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Gilmartin J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. A copy of the licence can be found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | .qualitative research, secondary analysis, obesity surgery, body types, body transformation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Healthcare (Leeds) > Nursing Adult (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 May 2019 11:22 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:50 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Peertechz |
Identification Number: | 10.17352/2455-2968.000067 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:146509 |