Effectiveness of the Solution Focused Group Intervention on Body Image after Mastectomy

Women with breast cancer that have undergone mastectomy surgery will gradually become sensitive to their physical deficiency which may cause distortion in their body image. One of approaches that will improve their attitude is solution focused treatment. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of short term solution focused group intervention on body image of women after mastectomy.
The plan used in this investigation was a quasi-experimental type with pre-test and post-test and accompanied with control group. Participators were matched up based on the time passed from their breast surgery and chemotherapy and were randomly assigned to two groups of 15 for experiment and 15 for control. Both groups were obliged to answer the multidimensional body–self relations questionnaire (Cash, Winstead and Janda, 1987). Then the experimental group participated in short term solution focused group therapy for 6 weeks.
Results of analyzing covariance of data obtained from both groups before and after treatment intervention indicated significance of statistical tests (p The current research showed that short term solution focused treatment improves body image of women that had undergone mastectomy significantly and has an efficient role in repairing damaged body image of these patients.