COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POST OPERATIVE CARE FOLLOWING ABDOMINAL AND VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY

Abstract

It has been reported that woman who undergo hysterectomics usually have emotional, physiological and social concerns (I-liggiii, 1991), i\iuong these concerns is the fear experienced, a result of the false belief that this type of surgery threatens their femininity and their ability to remain adequate wives and mothers. In addition, the loss of the uterus may produce a sense of incompleteness and lead to distortion of the self-concept of the patient (Halm, 1991).