The Effectiveness of Information-Motivation-Behavioral Model on Improve the weight and Body Size Among Women Undergoing Bariatric Surgery

Considering the high increase in individual's weight and its complications in different societies, as well as the progression of bariatric surgery techniques, psychological interventions are needed to reduce postoperative complications and to increase their positive outcomes for these patients. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of Information-Motivation-Behavioral (IMB) model on improving weight and body size in women undergoing bariatric surgery.
The design of present semi- experimental study was pre-test, post-test with experimental and control groups. The statistical population included all obese women that undergone laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy surgery in Shiraz Ghadir Mother & Child Multi Super Specialty Hospital, during second half of 2016. The 30 of them were selected by using available sampling method and they randomly were assigned to 2 groups, experimental (n=15) and control (n=15). The Balance with ruler, Tape measure& demographic information questionnaire was used to collect data for each 2 groups in two steps (pre-test and post-test). IMB model was implemented for the experimental group in four weeks (each week a 1/5 hour session) in Hospital Obesity Clinic. SPSS19 software was used and data were analyzed by using MANCOVA method and the significance level was P The results of multivariate covariance analysis showed that IMB model has had a significant effect on improving weight and body size in obese women undergoing bariatric surgery (p The results of this research showed that Information Motivation Behavioral model can be effective to improve weight and body size in women undergoing bariatric surgery.