Özet:

The bariatric surgery is an alternative treatment for patients with morbid obesity and/or who have complications from obesity. However, i order to be sucessful the patients must follow a nutritional orientations protocol before and after the surgery. This is a cross-sectional descriptive research which aims to evaluate the nutritional state of post-bariatric patients, as well as their nutritional knowlegde level about particularities of the surgery and the occurrence of complications related to their diet after the surgery in order to identify if these patients were well oriented and if they adhere to the indicated treatment. Were selected 317 post-bariatric patients in the age range of 19 to 61 years old, who had at least 15 days of operated. The data were obtained through a nutritional knowlegde level digital questionnaire and after analysis it was possible to observe improvement in the life quality of the participants due to the average weight loss of 40,65 kg ± 2,41 and a BMI reduction of 15,16 kg/m² ± 0,26, which consequently, resulted in the improvement of comorbidities related to obesity. Besides that, it was seen that 14,19% (n=45) presented some diet related complication, and in relation to the nutritional knowlegde level, most of the participants was aware about the given orientations, however, not all of them follow it correctly, leading to weight regain and diet related complications. It is concluded that bariatric surgery can improve the life's quality of people with obesity, since there's adherence to the orientations given by the multidisciplinary team.

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