AESTHETIC CORRECTION OF FIGURE AND QUALITY OF LIFE ASSOCIATED WITH BODY IMAGE

Abstract

Aim. To study the influence of the results of aesthetic surgical interventions on the quality of life, associated with imagined appearance, in patients with local lipodystrophias. Materials and methods. Qualitative and quantitative parameters of the quality of life, associated with imagined appearance, were analyzed in 22 women with local lipodysthrophy on the basis of clinical interview, clinicoanamnestic, anthropometric, experimental-psychological (BIQLI survey) methods. Dynamics of satisfaction with their own appearance in the interval of 1-3 years after the surgical correction (liposuction) was studied. Results. The total score of the quality of life level, associated with women’s attitude to their own appearance, was 29,1 ± 13,8 in women with local lipodystrophy, 21,7 ± 20,2 in the group of comparison ( p = 0,08). In the interval of 1-3 years after the aesthetic surgical correlation, the body contour was estimated as “excellent” by 10 (45 %) patients, “good” - 7 (32 %), “satisfactory” - 3 (14 %), “unsatisfactory” - 2 (9 %). Low scores were connected with the local postoperative deformations in the zone of surgical intervention. Satisfaction with their appearance after the surgery and, as a result, subjective rise in the quality of life was evaluated as “excellent” by 8 (36 %) patients, “good” - by 11 (50 %) patients. Conclusions. Patients with local lipodystrophy, whose quality of life initially was highly dependent on subjective perception of the body image, were much more satisfied with their own appearance in the long-term period after the liposuction.

Keywords

Aesthetic surgery / liposuction / quality of life

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Plaksin S.A., Khramtsova N.I., Zayakin Y.Y.