Posting for those who would like to participate in research on weight loss surgery. I found this on another site and I thought it would be good if they got some input from here as well.

A research study is being conducted through the department of Psychology and Counseling of Georgian Court University, Lakewood, NJ, on quality of life (QOL) outcomes in long-term post-operative bariatric surgery patients. If you have been living with an adjustable gastric band (such as LAP Band or Realize Band, RNY gastric bypass, gastric sleeve or duodenal switch for at least two years, please take the survey athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WLS-quality-of-life .

If your current surgery was a revision, you're also welcome to participate as long as your revision was at least two years ago.
Your responses will be treated with strict confidentiality, and you will have an opportunity to sign up to receive a copy of the results after you have completed the survey.
If you would like more information about the study, you may email the chairperson of the department of Psychology and Counseling, Susan E. O. Field, Ph. D., at fields@georgian.edu or by phone at (732) 987-2643. If you have any questions or concerns regarding confidentiality, ethics, or the nature of this study, please contact the chairperson of the Institutional Research Review Board, Cheryl Resnick-Cortes, D.S.W., at resnickc@georgian.edu or by phone at (732) 987-2366.
Thank you in advance for your participation!

It's very interesting, but I'm curious how you can test the validity of the answers? Nowhere does it ask any identifiable information. How do you know people aren't just giving bogus answers?

Just curious.

Edited December 18, 201312 yr by Mis73

It's very interesting, but I'm curious how you can test the validity of the answers? Nowhere does it ask any identifiable information. How do you know people aren't just giving bogus answers?

Just curious.

I guess people can always lie about stuff, but in this case I don't know why they would or would want to. Hopefully not too many people would want to mess it up by supplying bogus answers, but they probably have statisticians involved to factor that in. Just my guess. If participants are all WLS patients it would be to the benefit of everyone to provide honest answers. Something like this has to go through a bunch of approvals to even make it this far. If there wasn't the potential for it to benefit patients in some way, it most likely would not have been approved. That's a good point though. I wonder if/how they factor that in.

It's very interesting, but I'm curious how you can test the validity of the answers? Nowhere does it ask any identifiable information. How do you know people aren't just giving bogus answers?

Just curious.

I guess people can always lie about stuff, but in this case I don't know why they would or would want to. Hopefully not too many people would want to mess it up by supplying bogus answers, but they probably have statisticians involved to factor that in. Just my guess. If participants are all WLS patients it would be to the benefit of everyone to provide honest answers. Something like this has to go through a bunch of approvals to even make it this far. If there wasn't the potential for it to benefit patients in some way, it most likely would not have been approved. That's a good point though. I wonder if/how they factor that in.

You don't know the patient population very well it seems? I don't think many people actually lie but many are in denial or completely unaware of what their dietary actions do to their band(WLS). I've seen many people claim that they felt they could have lost the weight without the band and even more who never lost or gained weight and claimed no fault of their own.

Also, a larger population of failures will provide answers to these types of studies since they're angry over the cost, pain and time spent.