Autoestima e qualidade de vida de mulheres submetidas à cirurgia oncológica de mama

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the influence of sociodemographic and clinical variables and self-esteem on the quality of life in women undergoing breast cancer surgery. METHODS: A cross-sectional study developed in a university hospital. The sample consisted of 37 women in the late postoperative period. An instrument for the sociodemographic and clinical profile of women, the Rosenberg Scale for self-esteem, along with the WHOQOL-BREF for quality of life were used for data collection. The analysis was performed by means of descriptive statistics, Pearsorís correlation coefficient, student t-test and Mann-Whitney test. RESULTS: there was a moderate, positive correlation between self-esteem and education; a positive and moderate correlation between the social domain and family income, and between the environmental domain and age; a moderate correlation between self-esteem and the environmental domain and a strong correlation between self-esteem and the physical and psychological domains. CONCLUSION: Self-esteem influences the quality of life in women with breast cancer in the late postoperative period. There are given traits that identify those who will struggle to cope with cancer.