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Psychosexual trauma of an abnormal cervical smear
Author(s) -
CAMPION M. J.,
BROWN J. R.,
MCCANCE D. J.,
ATIA W.,
EDWARDS R.,
CUZICK J.,
SINGER A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1988.tb06848.x
Subject(s) - colposcopy , medicine , gynecology , psychosexual development , atypia , cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , obstetrics , cervical screening , cervical cancer , pathology , psychology , cancer , psychoanalysis
Summary. The psychosexual sequelae of diagnosis and treatment of pre‐invasive cervical atypia were assessed in three groups of women. The first group included 30 women referred to a colposcopy clinic with an abnormal cervical smear indicating cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), the second comprised 50 women who were traced as sexual partners of men with penile human papillomavirus (HPV) infection; 26 of them had histologically proven cervical atypia and 24 had no such evidence. The third group included 25 women traced as partners of men with non‐specific urethritis and who did not have cervical disease. Before and after questionnaires assessed six aspects of sexual behaviour and responses before diagnosis and 6 months after treatment in women with cervical atypia. These were compared with answers given by women investigated and treated, if necessary, as partners of men with sexually transmitted disease (control group). There were statistically significant adverse psychosexual sequelae associated with diagnosis and treatment of pre‐invasive cervical epithelial disease.