Sexual Satisfaction, Body Image and Quality of Life: A Comparison of Unaffected Women and Women with Breast Cancer in Two Groups: Mastectomy Surgery and Surgery-Preserving Breast

The present research is causal-comparison one that aims to compare sexual satisfaction, body image and quality of life in three groups: the uninfected women and women with breast cancer in two groups, surgery with mastectomy and surgery-preserving breast. The Second population included breast cancer patients that 68 of them were selected with purposive sampling method (including 43 who had undergone surgery mastectomy and 25 who were treated with surgery breast preserved). Data were collected using the questionnaires of Demographics, Quality of Life (SF-36), Multidimensional Body Image and Sexual Satisfaction (subscale Satisfaction marriage enriches). Data were analyzed using variance analysis method. It indicated that the three groups were not significantly different in variables of body image and sexual satisfaction. Nonetheless the results demonstrated that among the three groups there were significant differences in terms of quality of life variable. The use of Sheffe test indicated that quality of life in healthy women was significantly higher than the other two groups.