JNP-JOURNAL FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS, cilt.18, sa.2, ss.185-189, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
When postbariatric surgery patients cannot perform the behavior of excessive eating that they used to perform for coping with negative feelings in the preoperative period, they may adopt other new and inappropriate coping behaviors. This study was conducted to determine the risk of substance use and internet addiction in patients with and without food addiction before bariatric surgery. The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 203 patients. The results showed that 54.7% of the patients who had food addiction before undergoing bariatric surgery were at risk of internet addiction, and 22.0% were at risk of substance use. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.