أثر جراحة تكميم المعدة على البيئة الأسرية في الكويت: بحث تجريبي

Abstract EN

The purpose of this research is to identify the dimensions of the family environment that have a significant change when a member of the family undergoes a gastric sleeve surgery.

the research made use of a positivist paradigm of research, and accordingly, used a quantitative approach using a survey strategy making use of a self-administered questionnaire that was distributed in Google form as well as hardcopy format.

the sample size was 245 which was chosen based on the convenience sampling technique.

the results have indicated that among the socio demographic factors, the gender of the family member had a significant association with religious orientation, employment status and income per month had a significant association with expressiveness.

Among the dimensions of family environment, there was a significant change in cohesion, expressiveness, recreational orientation, and religious orientation of the family members after the gastric sleeve surgery of a member of the family.

the implications of the research are in the form of suggestions to the ministry of social affairs and labour, ministry of health, and doctors who perform gastric sleeve surgery.