Sexuality of young women surviving leukaemia
Children's Hospital, University
of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Correspondence to: Dr L-R Puukko, Norros Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, Stenbäckink 11, FIN-00290, Helsinki, Finland.
Accepted 7 December
1996
This study was designed to assess the sexuality of young women
surviving acute leukaemia in childhood or early adolescence. Thirty of
31 survivors were compared with 50 healthy age matched controls. Three
methods were used: a self report questionnaire, a face to face
interview conducted by a psychiatrist, and a projective psychological
test. The age at initiation of dating and sexual activity, the
frequency of sexual intercourse, and opinions on sexual behaviour were
similar in the two groups. With regard to inner sexuality, however, the
survivors differed significantly from the healthy controls. Their
images of sexuality were more restrictive, and their attitudes,
especially those concerning sexual pleasure, were more negative than
those of the controls. Sexual identity among the survivors was less
often feminine and more often infantile as compared with the controls.
The findings obtained with the three methods of assessment were concordant.
© 1997 by Archives of Disease in Childhood
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