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Correlation between Self-Compassion and Body-Image among Women with Mastectomy

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Background: Mastectomy women always struggle to accept their body after the surgery and become isolated, criticize herself, and unable to use self-compassion as a mean of coping with such adversity.  Aim of the study: This study aimed to examine the correlation between self-compassion and body-image among women with mastectomy. Resarch design: A descriptive correlational design was utilized to achieve the aim of the study.  Setting: The study was conducted at general surgery outpatient's clinics at Benha University Hospital which is affiliated to Ministry of High Education, Benha city, Qalubia Governorate. Subject: A purposive sample of (60) women with mastectomy was utilized in this study. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection: Tool (1): - A- structured interviewing questionnaire sheet included socio demographic as well as clinical characteristics of the studied women. Tool (2):- Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) & Tool (3):- Body-Image Scale. Results: The result of the present study revealed that, the majority of the studied women had low level of self-compassion and the majority of the studied women had poor level of body-image.  Conclusion: There was a high statistically significant positive correlation between mean score of total self-compassion and mean score of total body-image among the studied women with mastectomy. Recommendations:  Psychological intervention should be integrated as a part of routine nursing care to improve their self-compassion and body-image for all women with mastectomy.

DOI

10.21608/bjas.2024.281412.1393

Keywords

mastectomy, Body-image, self-compassion

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amira

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A. Mokhtar

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University

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tigerman228345@gmail.com

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Maaly

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I. El-Malkey

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University

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Mawaheb

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M. Zaki

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University

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Hend

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A. Mostafa

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University

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9

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4

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46896

Issue Date

2024-04-01

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2024-04-03

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2024-04-01

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183

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193

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2356-9751

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2356-976X

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Benha Journal of Applied Sciences

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Correlation between Self-Compassion and Body-Image among Women with Mastectomy

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28 Dec 2024