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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between the degree of patient's satisfaction with the result of aesthetic operation after surgery at Wonkwang University Plastic Surgery, Among the Outpatients from January, 1, 1996 to August, 30, 1997, using the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision, the general psychopathology of the patients(50) were compared with the control(50) without aesthetic operation. The patients group was consisted of female and unmarried who were in their 30's. These findings are as follows
1) The frequency of motivation to aesthetic operation was that 38 patients had external motivation, 8 patients had internal motivation, 4 people had others.
2) The degree of patient's satisfaction with the result of the aesthetic operation were that 4 patients had shown very satisfaction, 15 patients had shown the most satisfaction, 15 patients had shown moderate satisfaction, 7 patients had shown the most dissatisfaction, 9 patients had shown very dissatisfaction.
3) The patient group had significantly lower score on all items of Symptom Checklist-90-Revision except on the item of Positive Symptom Total compared with the control group.
4) There were significantly negative correlations between the degree of patient's satisfaction and items of interpersonal sensitivity and phobic anxiety, and there were significantly positive correlations between the degree of patient's dissatisfaction and items of obsessive-compulsive, anxiety, phobic anxiety, total distress index and positive symptom distress index.
The results suggest that aesthetic operation could give not only the satisfaction of the appearance but also psychological stability to the patient, and obsessive-compulsiveness, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety and phobic anxiety make patients dissatisfy about results of aesthetic operation. Therefore, it would be needed to evaluate the psychological aspects before aesthetic operation.
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