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 4

Instruments used by Song et al. [12].

Area of assessment	Outcome measures	General or specifically developed for study
Body perception and ideals	Pictorial body image assessment (PBIA)	Modified version of the Stunkard Silhouette tool developed specifically for this study
Body image satisfaction and areas of distress	(i) Body image and satisfaction assessment (BISA); (ii) Current body image assessment (CBIA)	(i) Specifically developed for this study; (ii) Specifically developed for this study
General and condition specific quality of life	(i) Health related quality of life (HR-QoL); (ii) The postbariatric surgery quality of life (PBSQoL) survey	(i) A general instrument to measure QoL; (ii) Specifically developed for this study
Mood	Beck’s inventory	General instrument to assess mood