Assessing Improvement in Quality of Life and Patient Satisfaction following Body Contouring Surgery in Patients with Massive Weight Loss: A Critical Review of Outcome Measures Employed

Table 11

Evaluation of self-consciousness.

	Preoperative perception of SC	Perception of SC between bariatric and plastic surgical interventions	Perception of SC after bariatric and plastic surgery interventions
General self-consciousness	34.3 (3.1)	27.6 (2.5)	21.2 (1.9)
Social self-consciousness	25.1 (2.8)	19.4 (2.1)	16.6 (1.8)
Self-consciousness of appearance	17.7 (3.5)	11.8 (2.3)	8.2 (1.6)