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KMID : 0379720010150010148
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2001 Volume.15 No. 1 p.148 ~ p.156
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Spouse Support , Sexual Satisfaction and Marital Intimacy of Post - mastectomy Patients
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Yoo Yang-Sook
Cho Ok-Hee
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Abstract
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Data were collected using questionnaire to 102 post-mastectomy patients visiting the out-patient department at Catholic University St. Mary Hospital and Kang Nam St. Mary Hospital from October, 1998 to January, 1999 in order to provide the basic data for development of nursing intervention which can help patients´ emotional and sexual adaptation to treatment outcome as well as increase quality of life by studying spouse support, sexual satisfaction and marital intimacy of patients.
Spouse support and sexual satisfaction were measured with the tool developed by Soon-bok Jang (1989).
Marital intimacy was measured with the tool developed by Waring (1984) and improved by Sook-nam Kim (1998).
Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, multiple comparison by Duncan, Pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression.
The results were as follows ;
1. Spouse support in the group of 6 month or less post-operative period was higher than that of 13 to 36 month period.
2. Sexual satisfaction in the group college graduation or above was higher than that of high school and middle school graduation.
3. Marital intimacy in the group of 61 month or above post-operative period was higher than that of 6 month or less and 13 to 36 month period.
4. The higher spouse support results in the higher sexual satisfaction and the higher marital intimacy according to a positive correlation.
5. The main effective variable on marital intimacy was spouse support, and the effectiveness showed 31.09%, while it was 43.06% including sexual satisfaction and post-operative period.
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