Begüm Yıldırım Cinek, Melike Pekyürek Varan, Gökhan Yaprak, Merih Altıntaş
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Abstract
Objective: This study explored the differences in cognitive emotion regulation strategies, body image, and sexual functioning between women with breast cancer and healthy controls. It also investigated the relationships among these variables in breast cancer patients, considering the role of depression and anxiety.
Methods: This cross-sectional case-control study included 112 participants (56 breast cancer patients and 56 healthy controls). Participants were assessed using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Body Cathexis Scale, Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), and Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS). Depression and anxiety levels were evaluated using the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and Hamilton Anxiety Scale. Statistical analyses included group comparisons and partial correlation analyses.
Results: Breast cancer patients exhibited significantly higher scores on the depression scale, reflecting greater depressive symptoms, poorer body image, and greater impairments in sexual functioning compared to healthy controls. GRISS subscales indicated higher dissatisfaction, avoidance, nonsensuality, vaginismus, and anorgasmia in breast cancer patients, while FSFI subscales showed reduced desire, arousal, lubrication, satisfaction, and orgasm. Positive reappraisal, an adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy, was negatively associated with sexual dissatisfaction after controlling for depression and anxiety.
Conclusion: Breast cancer significantly impacts mental health, body image, and sexual functioning. The findings underscore the importance of integrating psychiatric screening and care into oncology. Interventions enhancing cognitive emotion regulation, particularly positive reappraisal, may improve psychological and sexual well-being in breast cancer survivors.
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The Psychiatry Investigation is published on the 25th day of every month in English by the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association (KNPA). The Journal covers the whole range of psychiatry and neuroscience. Both basic and clinical contributions are encouraged from all disciplines and research areas relevant to the pathophysiology and management of neuropsychiatric disorders and symptoms, as well as researches related to cross cultural psychiatry and ethnic issues in psychiatry. The Journal publishes editorials, review articles, original articles, brief reports, viewpoints and correspondences. All research articles are peer reviewed. Contributions are accepted for publication on the condition that their substance has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors submitting papers to the Journal (serially or otherwise) with a common theme or using data derived from the same sample (or a subset thereof) must send details of all relevant previous publications and simultaneous submissions. The Journal is not responsible for statements made by contributors. Material in the Journal does not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor or of the KNPA. Manuscripts accepted for publication are copy-edited to improve readability and to ensure conformity with house style.