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Mental health and psychosocial characteristics of breast augmentation patients

Tilmann von Soest1, Leila Torgersen2, Ingela Lundin Kvalem1

  • 1University of Oslo, Norway.

Journal of Health Psychology
|January 31, 2018
PubMed

Cosmetic breast surgery experience and a wide range of mental health, psychosocial, and sociodemographic variables were assessed in the population-based Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (N = 78,252). Breast augmentation patients reported elevated mental health problems. Factors in the domains of physical appearance, drug use, relationships, and exposure to abuse were all related to breast augmentation. Adjusting for such factors reduced the relationships between breast augmentation surgery and all mental health problems to non-significance. Results indicate that the increased prevalence of mental health problems among breast augmentation patients has to be understood from multiple perspectives involving several psychosocial domains.

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Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)breast augmentation surgerycosmetic surgerydepressionmental health

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