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. 2022 Sep 7;19(18):11238.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph191811238.

Welfare and Self-Assessment in Patients after Aesthetic and Reconstructive Treatments

Edyta Skwirczyńska  1 , Michał Piotrowiak  2 , Marek Ostrowski  2 , Oskar Wróblewski  3 , Karol Tejchman  2 , Sebastian Kwiatkowski  3 , Aneta Cymbaluk-Płoska  4
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Welfare and Self-Assessment in Patients after Aesthetic and Reconstructive Treatments

Edyta Skwirczyńska et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

In the last decade, there has been a noticeable increase in the interest in aesthetic and corrective surgery regardless of a patient's age. Both aesthetical and practical considerations are a motivation for patients undergoing plastic surgery. The goal of this study is to analyze dependencies between welfare, self-assessment and body self-perception in patients that qualified for plastic and aesthetic surgical procedures. The study group included 164 female patients, of whom 124 patients filled out a questionnaire before and after surgery. The questionnaire included demographic data and scales such as the Body Esteem Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale-SES, the Satisfaction with Life Scale-SWLS, the Flourishing Scale and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience-SPANE. The first hypothesis concerned the subjective assessment of body self-perception after the procedure. The results of the study confirm this hypothesis-female patients after surgery rate their body self-perception higher, which indicates a positive influence of plastic and aesthetic surgery that increased in the subjective assessment of 66 examined patients. Moreover, the study revealed a higher self-assessment after procedures. On the other hand, the results indicated that younger patients had a higher body assessment, but there was no increase in self-assessment. Except for breast augmentation surgery, there was no influence on self-assessment and life satisfaction improvement after other surgical procedures. In patients up to 48 years old, after surgery, there was a significant dependence between subjective body self-assessment and all surveyed forms of welfare. In the case of patients after 48 year of age, there was a relationship between life satisfaction and body self-perception both before and after surgical treatment.

Keywords: Body Esteem Scale; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale; Satisfaction with Life Scale; aesthetic surgery; self-assessment.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Number of patients in relation to the chosen type of surgery.
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Types of procedures performed by patients with vocational education.
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Types of procedures performed by patients with secondary education.
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Types of procedures performed by patients with post-secondary education.
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Types of procedures performed by patients with higher education.
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Comparison of patients’ self-esteem before and after a specific type of surgery.
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Comparison of the sense of well-being among patients before and after the procedure.
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Comparison of the sense of positive functioning among patients before and after the procedure.
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Positive and negative emotions felt among patients before and after the procedure.
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Comparison of the subjective self-esteem with regard to the patient’s body before and after the procedure.
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Comparison of various forms of patients’ well-being before and after the procedure.
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