Investigation of Body Awareness and Affecting Factors in Patients with Bariatric Surgery.

Background: Major weight loss after bariatric surgery (BS) makes the body sensitive to the environment. The factors associated with body awareness are unknown in patients with BS. In this study, we aimed to investigate the body awareness and the affecting factors in patients with BS.

Turkish translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and assessment of psychometric properties of the Ottawa sitting scale for the intensive care unit survivors.

Purpose: To translate and cross-culturally adapt the Ottawa Sitting Scale (OSS) developed for acute care patients into Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties in intensive care unit (ICU) survivors.

Methods: After translation process the Turkish version of the scale was adminstered to eighty-one patients aged 39-82 years after discharge from the ICU and videotape was recorded. Two physiotherapists watched the videotaped records during the evaluation and scored.