Effect of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation on Psychological Well-being, Mental Health and Body Image Concern in Mastectomized Women

Abstract

Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women which their most common treatment is mastectomy. Mastectomized women have many psychological problems. Regarded to effectiveness of psycho-social rehabilitation, the present research aimed to determine the effect of psycho-social rehabilitation on psychological well-being, mental health, and body image concern in mastectomized women. Methods: The method of the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest and posttest design with a control group. The research population was mastectomized women in Pastorino hospital of Mashhad city in the 2018 year. From the members of the society, 50 people, after reviewing the inclusion criteria, were selected by the available sampling method and randomly replaced into two equal groups. The experimental group trained eight sessions of 90-minutes as a group psycho-social rehabilitation program, and the control group didn't receive any training. Data collected by form of demographic information and the questionnaires of psychological well-being, mental health and body image concern and analyzed with using statistical tests of Chi-square, t-test and multivariate analysis of covariance.