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Changes and challenges in sexual life experienced by the husbands of women with breast cancer: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) in women can bring various problems to their marital and family life. Sexual life based on the experiences of the husbands of women diagnosed with BC has not been fully understood. Therefore, this research aimed to explore changes and challenges in sexual life experien...

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Autores principales: Maleki, Maryam, Mardani, Abbas, Ghafourifard, Mansour, Vaismoradi, Mojtaba
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9344622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35918700
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01906-8
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author Maleki, Maryam
Mardani, Abbas
Ghafourifard, Mansour
Vaismoradi, Mojtaba
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description BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) in women can bring various problems to their marital and family life. Sexual life based on the experiences of the husbands of women diagnosed with BC has not been fully understood. Therefore, this research aimed to explore changes and challenges in sexual life experienced by the husbands of women diagnosed with BC. METHODS: A qualitative research was carried out on 18 men whose wives had been diagnosed with BC at reproductive age. They were selected using purposeful sampling and were interviewed using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Collected data were analyzed using the conventional content analysis method. RESULTS: ‘Sexual life suspension’ was the main theme of this research. Also, ‘unfulfilled sexual expectations’, ‘perceived barriers to satisfy sexual expectations’, and ‘efforts to adapt to sexual problems’ were subthemes. CONCLUSIONS: The husbands of women with BC need support to improve their sexual and marital relationships. Education and counseling about sexual life during the treatment of BC should be incorporated into the healthcare program. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12905-022-01906-8.
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spelling pubmed-93446222022-08-03 Changes and challenges in sexual life experienced by the husbands of women with breast cancer: a qualitative study Maleki, Maryam Mardani, Abbas Ghafourifard, Mansour Vaismoradi, Mojtaba BMC Womens Health Research BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) in women can bring various problems to their marital and family life. Sexual life based on the experiences of the husbands of women diagnosed with BC has not been fully understood. Therefore, this research aimed to explore changes and challenges in sexual life experienced by the husbands of women diagnosed with BC. METHODS: A qualitative research was carried out on 18 men whose wives had been diagnosed with BC at reproductive age. They were selected using purposeful sampling and were interviewed using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Collected data were analyzed using the conventional content analysis method. RESULTS: ‘Sexual life suspension’ was the main theme of this research. Also, ‘unfulfilled sexual expectations’, ‘perceived barriers to satisfy sexual expectations’, and ‘efforts to adapt to sexual problems’ were subthemes. CONCLUSIONS: The husbands of women with BC need support to improve their sexual and marital relationships. Education and counseling about sexual life during the treatment of BC should be incorporated into the healthcare program. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12905-022-01906-8. BioMed Central 2022-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9344622/ /pubmed/35918700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01906-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Vaismoradi, Mojtaba
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9344622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35918700
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01906-8
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