Psychosomatics
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Published: October 1991
Sixty daughters of mothers with breast cancer were matched for age, educational level, and race with 60 comparison subjects without a maternal history of breast cancer to assess the impact on psychological adjustment, coping, body image, sexual functioning, and health knowledge and practices of having had a mother with breast cancer. Daughters of breast cancer patients showed significantly less frequent sexual intercourse, lower sexual satisfaction, and greater feelings of vulnerability to breast cancer, and they could identify a greater number of symptoms of breast cancer. No differences between groups were found in psychological symptoms, coping styles, breast self-examination practices, mammography practices, health knowledge, or body-image ratings. Contrary to clinical studies, women at risk for breast cancer showed good overall coping with few signs of significant dysfunctions in relation to comparison subjects.
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