Qualidade de vida e aspectos da sexualidade de mulheres tratadas de cancer de mama

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

Goals: To evaluate quality of life and sexuality of women with breast cancer according to the type of surgery to which they had been submitted and sociodemographic characteristics. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 110 women treated at least one year previously for breast cancer. Quality of life was evaluated using the World Health Organization?s abbreviated Quality of Life questionnaire. Sexuality was evaluated using a specific questionnaire in which, Cronbach?s alpha was used to check validity and concordance, and factorial analysis technique was used with self-value criteria and maximum rotation of variance, resulting in two factors: intrinsic (how the woman sees herself sexually) and extrinsic (how the woman believes others see her sexually). Cronbach?s alpha coefficient for the new factors was 0.72. Sociodemographic variables were evaluated according to the domains of the World Health Organization questionnaire and the sexuality domains using the Kruskal-Wallis test followed by the Mann-Whitney test and Spearman?s correlation. Results: Age, education level, type of surgery and time since surgery had no influence on quality of life in the physical, environment, psychological or social relationship domains. Women with stable marital relationships obtained higher scores in the psychological (p=0.04) and social relationship (p=0.02) domains. Higher socioeconomic level influenced quality of life in the physical (p=0.01) and environment (p=0.002) domains. With respect to sexuality, age affected the extrinsic factor. Women with a stable marital relationship had higher scores in both sexuality domains. Higher education level had a positive effect on the intrinsic factor. Women submitted to quadrantectomy or mastectomy followed immediately by reconstruction had higher scores in the extrinsic factor when compared to mastectomized women who had not had reconstruction. Conclusion: Higher socioeconomic and education levels, stable marital relationship and conservative breast surgery were associated with improved quality of life, including sexuality

ASSUNTO(S)

tratamento cirurgico qualidade de vida cancer - mamas sexualidade

ACESSO AO ARTIGO

Documentos Relacionados