Female Sexual Function Index, Inventário de Depressão de Beck, Body Dysmorphic Disorder após reconstrução mamária 

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Archangelo, Silvania de Cassia Vieira [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Depressão; Imagem corporal; Questionários; Reconstrução de mama; Sexualidade; Neoplasias de mama
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/9649

Introduction: Breast cancer is the second most frequent one worldwide, the most prevalent one among women and the one that most causes death. Its treatment has improved in the last decades although it still presents an impact over global life quality and its specific aspects as depression and body image, which can be minimized through a reconstructing procedure of the breast that surgically removed. Goal: To evaluate sexual function, depression and body image after breast reconstruction. Methods: In order to evaluate the sexual function, it was applied a sexual function specific questionnaire, The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), which was used to 90 women divided into three groups: control ( n=30), mastectomy (n=30) and breast reconstruction (n=30). It was also applied the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Examination (BDDE) in order to evaluate depression and body image, respectively. Results: It was observed a significant difference among the groups regarding the average scores of FSFI (p=0,007), the scores of BDI (p=0, 02) and the BDDE (p=0, 01). It was observed a correlation of sexual function decreasing with age, no steady relationship and high scholar formation. Young patients in the mastectomy group also presented significantly higher scores of BDI and BDDE, what means more depressive symptoms and worst body image, respectively. Conclusion: Sexual function and body image were better in the group of patients who underwent breast reconstruction which allowed observing fewer depressive symptoms.