Measuring Patient Satisfaction and Quality of Life Following Body Image Altering Surgery

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Breast Reconstruction

Breast Cancer

Breast Augmentation

Breast Reduction

Breast Surgery

Treatments

Behavioral: questionnaires

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00605670

05-058

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to develop a questionnaire to measure patient satisfaction with their breast surgery. This questionnaire will help surgeons better understand how patients feel about their surgical results. We hope that such a questionnaire will improve the understanding of breast surgery results and patient care.

Enrollment

722 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 85 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All stages (1-4)
Age > or = to 18 to 85 years.
Postoperative Group: Male and Female patients who have undergone mastectomy, breast reconstruction, reduction, augmentation, bariatric or body contouring surgery between 1 month to 8 years ago

Preoperative Group: Male and Female patients who are scheduled to undergo mastectomy, breast reconstruction, reduction, or augmentation or body contouring surgery

Exclusion criteria

Inability to speak or understand English
Active psychiatric illness, cognitive or sensory impairment
Physical impairment that may prevent filling out a paper and pencil survey or responding to interview questions