ArticleBMC women's health2024
Women's decision process when actively choosing to 'go flat' after breast cancer: a constructivist grounded theory study.
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- Patients' Perspectives on Breast Reconstruction in Sub-Saharan Africa.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- "When I Look in the Mirror, I Want to See a Healthy Body": The Lived Experience of Young Previvors, Bilateral Risk-Reducing Mastectomy, and Body Image.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThis study aims to describe a conceptual model that could illuminate the decision process women go through when choosing to go flat on one or both sides due to breast cancer.
methodsA qualitative design, with constructivist grounded theory was used. Eighteen women were individually interviewed, digitally or by telephone, until saturation was reached. Data were analysed using a constant comparative iterative method in accordance with grounded theory. By examining the text data to identify the decision process for going flat and rejecting reconstructive surgery open coding was obtained. As the study proceeded patterns were explored and categories developed into a core category.
resultsThe overall decision process for women choosing to go flat on one or both sides emerged in three phases: Phase 1, where the women are forced to "Face the cancer", Phase 2 comprising "Reflections on health and motivation" and Phase 3, described as "Hobson's choice". The fundament of the decision process was found in the core category "Establishing and safeguarding the chosen self".
conclusionsThe decision process involved in actively going flat and rejecting reconstructive surgery is founded in the individual woman's motivations, such as view of femininity and apprehensions about the offered reconstructive surgery.
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