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Health Care for Women International Volume 40, 2019 - Issue 4
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The effect of body image on sexual quality of life in obese married women

Feride Taskin YilmazDepartment of Internal Diseases Nursing, School of Susehri Health High, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey; Correspondence[email protected]
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Azime Karakoc KumsarDepartment of Internal Diseases Nursing, Faculty of Healthy Science, Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey;
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Gulbahtiyar DemirelMidwifery Department, Faculty of Health Science, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
Pages 479-492 | Received 29 Jan 2018, Accepted 05 Oct 2018, Published online: 26 Nov 2018
 
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Abstract

In this descriptive and comparative study, our aim was to determine the effect of body image on sexual quality of life in obese married women. The sample of the study consisted of 583 women over the age of 18 (38.9% normal weight, 28.5% overweight, and 32.6% obese). Data were collected using The Body Image Scale and The Sexual Quality of Life Scale-Women’s Form. The body image satisfaction and sexual quality of life levels of obese women were found to be low. Additionally, as the positive body image increased in normal weight, overweight and obese women, sexual quality of life increased.

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