Comparison between Effectiveness of Combined Psychosexual Intervention and Medical treatment on the Sexual Satisfaction of Breast Cancer Survivors

Abstract

Background: Combined psychosexual intervention and medical treatment are two approaches that have designed for increasing sexual satisfaction in breast cancer patients. Question of this study is: could psychosexual intervention be more effective in sexual satisfaction alone? Aims: This study aimed to show combined psychosexual intervention is more effective than medical treatment in sexual satisfaction of breast cancer survivors. Method: Method of this research was semi experimental with pre and posttest and two experimental and one control group and research tool was sexual satisfaction scale of women. Analysis of covariate and ANOVA was used for analysis. Results: Results showed average of three groups was different in Relationship anxiety sub scale (P=0.037) and total Sexual satisfaction score (P=0.006) while other sub scales were not different. Post hoc test showed that relationship anxiety was reduced in psychosexual intervention group compared with medical group and total sexual satisfaction scale was improved in psychosexual intervention group compared with medical group. Other sub scales were not different. Conclusions: It means that: breast cancer survivors could relatively benefit more from psychosexual intervention than medical intervention.

Keywords

• psychosexual combined intervention
• medical treatment
• sexual satisfaction
• breast cancer