2019, Cilt 6, Sayı 1, Sayfa(lar) 065-073
Assessment of Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery According to The Roy's Adaptation Model: Two Case Reports
Meryem Yılmaz1, Pınar Yılmaz2
1Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi Hemşirelik Bölümü Cerrahi Hastalıkları Hemşireliği Anabilim Dalı, Sivas, Türkiye
2Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi Hemşirelik Bölümü Cerrahi Hastalıkları Hemşireliği Anabilim Dalı, Sivas, Türkiye
Keywords: Bariatric surgery, nursing, obesity, Roy's adaptation model

Obesity is a complex, multifactorial, and largely preventable disease. Today, all countries in the world have reached the alarm level. For this reason, many treatment modalities have been developed in the fight against obesity today. One of them is a bariatric surgery. Individuals may experience serious adjustment problems due to significant changes in eating, lifestyle and body image after bariatric surgery. Roy's Adaptation Model (RAM), widely used in nursing, focuses on determining the adaptation needs of the individuals in the four areas of integration and the changes that occur in and around the human adaptation system. In this case study, two patients who underwent bariatric surgery in a university hospital in 2017 were evaluated preoperatively one time and postoperatively four times according to RAM. In this study, it was determined that the first case adapted according to RAM while the second case could not adapt and have physiological and psychological complications. In the study, RAM facilitated the systematic evaluation and monitoring of patients and made it possible to identify problems. Thus, it was concluded that the nurses could evaluate the adaptation problems experienced by the individuals after the bariatric surgery according to the RAM from the preoperative period and could facilitate the adaptation by planning and applying the necessary interventions to solve the identified problems.