title: Depression, anxiety and sexual satisfaction in breast cancer patients and their partners-Izmir oncology group study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We aimed to investigate anxiety, depression and sexual satisfaction levels and the effects of depression and anxiety upon the sexual satisfaction of Turkish breast cancer patients and their partners.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected from one hundred breast cancer patients and their partners, using three forms: one covering information about socio-demographic characteristics of the patients, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADs) and the Golombok-Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The frequencies, avoidance and touch subscores were statistically significantly high in the patients. Among those with high anxiety scores, the frequency, communication, satisfaction, touch, and anorgasmic subscale scores of GRISS were found to be significantly high. Among the partners whose anxiety scores were high, only the premature ejaculation subscale was statistically significant. It was determined that for partners with higher depression scores, the communication, satisfaction, avoidance, premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction subscores of GRISS were statistically higher compared to partners with lower depression scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients' quality of life may be increased by taking precautions to reduce their and their partners' psychosocial and psychosexual concerns.
authors.affiliation: Medical Oncology, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey E-mail : dralaca2000@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alacacioglu
authors.forename: Eda
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authors.lastname: Ulger
authors.forename: Umut
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authors.lastname: Varol
authors.forename: Ibrahim
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authors.lastname: Yildiz
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authors.lastname: Salman
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authors.lastname: Bayoglu
authors.forename: Ahmet
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authors.lastname: Dirican
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authors.lastname: Demir
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authors.lastname: Akyol
authors.forename: Yasar
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authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: Yuksel
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authors.lastname: Kucukzeybek
authors.forename: Gorkem
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authors.lastname: Ataman
authors.forename: Huseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Can
authors.forename: Inci
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authors.lastname: Alacacioglu
authors.forename: Mustafa Oktay
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Tarhan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology