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ArticleEuropean journal of breast health2018

The Effect on Quality of Life and Body Image of Mastectomy Among Breast Cancer Survivors.

Kübra Erturhan Türk, Meryem Yılmaz

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Article in European journal of breast health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05222763 (Effect Of Web - Supported Interactıve Nursıng Program After Mastectomy On Body Value, Care Dependence And Psychosocıal Adaptatıon To Dısease-Self-Awareness Levels Accordıng To Self-Regulatıon Model), which is not on this map. Cited by 46 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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46citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05222763 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Effect Of Web - Supported Interactıve Nursıng Program After Mastectomy On Body Value, Care Dependence And Psychosocıal Adaptatıon To Dısease-Self-Awareness Levels Accordıng To Self-Regulatıon Model: Mıxed Method Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorCumhuriyet UniversityRan2022 to 2023Enrolled67ConditionsWeb Based Intervention, Mastectomy, Illness Perception, Nursing CariesArmsWeb-assisted patient education intervention designed according to the self-regulation model, The website where the mastectomy patients handbook
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 128 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The impact of mastectomy on Iranian women sexuality and body image: a systematic review of qualitative studies.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
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  5. The effect of a group cognitive behavioral therapy on the quality of life and emotional disturbance of women with breast cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022
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  10. Lived experiences of Ethiopian women post-mastectomy without reconstruction: findings and guidelines from a feminist phenomenological study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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  13. Relationships between spiritual well-being and body image perception in Turkish women undergoing mastectomy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  17. Association Between Body Image and Quality of Life of Women Who Underwent Breast Cancer Surgery.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Kübra Erturhan TürkDivision of Nursing, Department of Surgical Diseases Nursing, Cumhuriyet University School of Health Sciences, Sivas, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-5393-8049
Meryem YılmazDivision of Nursing, Department of Surgical Diseases Nursing, Cumhuriyet University School of Health Sciences, Sivas, Turkey.
University of Health Science · KH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe objective of the present study was to determine effect on quality of life (QoL) and body image level following mastectomy among breast cancer (BC) survivors. MATERIALS AND

methodsIn this descriptive study was carried out between February 2015 and December 2016 with 57 women with modified radical mastectomy and who in stage II and stage III. Data were collected using the socio-demographic and body cathexis scale, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B) to determine QoL. The study was carried out in home environment in which women lived.

resultsThe average age of the women was 49.34 years (ranged 28-78 years). Most of the women had undergone mastectomy for more than 6 months.. Most of the women also received adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The study showed that the mean FACT-B total score of the women was 68.47 (SD=22.44), and the body image score was 121.61(SD=21.96). According to the results of linear regression analysis, except for the social/family well-being of FACT-B, positive correlations were calculated among the other sub-dimensions of FACT-B and the FACT-B total score and the body image total score respectively (β=0.822, p=0.000). In the multiple linear regression model, there was medium correlation between education and work status with QoL, no correlation between QoL and other features of women. There was important positive relationship between body image with time after mastectomy and chemotherapy and no correlation between body image and other features of women.

conclusionThe results of this study showed that the mastectomy has a negative impact on body image and QoL of women and there was a strong positive correlation between body image and QoL.

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body imageBreast cancermastectomynursingquality of life

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PMID30288494
PMCPMC6170016
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