Hi everybody! We're a group of USC MBA students who are working on a class project to better understand the needs of potential weight loss surgery patients.

If you are considering weight loss surgery but have not yet made a decision, please take our survey below. And fear not, your responses will be read by actual human beings!

Survey link here:

https://qtrial2016q2az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eEBGKyaFlltjMTb

Thanks for your help with this assignment, and please feel free to post any questions to this thread. We will respond as soon as possible!

I looked over your questions and I'm wondering what specifically your research is focused on? All those question could be answered from pre-ops but I think you might get better insight from ppl who are post-op that might have teeter toddler before getting surgery

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Edited April 23, 201610 yr by Doc'sWife

I looked over your questions and I'm wondering what specifically your research is focused on? All those question could be answered from pre-ops but I think you might get better insight from ppl who are post-op that might have teeter toddler before getting surgery

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Thanks for your feedback Doc'sWife!

We actually have another member of our team focused on post ops and pre ops.

Our project is specifically focused on the consideration phase, where someone might be thinking about surgery but has not yet committed or undergone. This is a challenging demo to get at because of its intermediate position on the decision spectrum. Hope this answers your question!

I am 2 1/2 years post-op with a gastric sleeve. Several of your survey questions are redundant. Here is a link to my favorite thread on this forum. Instead of giving you maybe a dozen responses, it will give you

1, 309 reasons why we decided to follow through with bariatric intervention.

http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/219831-what-was-your-final-straw-that-broke-the-camels-back/?hl=%20final%20%20straw

You are going to have a miserable time finding themes across those questions- why not use a quantitative design? If you check out Miss Mac's link you'll have a lot better of an idea how to make your questions a little more narrow in scope. At the graduate level your professor is generally just happy if you turn in a group project that isn't terrible, and there are very rarely any verification processes that determine the validity and reliability of your methods, so ultimately it doesn't really matter much that your questions are not really great for actual qualitative research (no offense).

On another note though, you know no one actually collects real data for those projects right? If you read the link you'll be able to make up enough answers to write a decent paper and you don't have to worry about the fact that you are never going to get anything remotely resembling a representative sample from this forum with that survey. At least with the link you have an idea of what the answers would have been if enough people had taken the survey and you can synthesize your "results" from that.

Good luck