Investigation of the psychosocial reaction of HPV infected women

Abstract

Objective To study the psychosocial impact and the level of anxiety of the HPV infected women so as to provide reference evidence for designing psychosocial interventions program .Methods Self-made questionnaire and self-rating anxiety scale （ SAS） were used to investigate the psychosocial impact and the level of anxiety of 287 HPV infected women .Results The common psychosocial impact was stigma , fear and self-blame.The SAS scores of one type HPV infected group and multi type HPV infected group were （53.17 ± 13.73） and （55.42 ±10.64） scores,respectively, there was no significant difference between the two groups （t=0.653,P＆gt;0.05）.The SAS scores of high-risk subtype HPV infected group and low-risk subtype HPV infected group were （68.14 ±16.73） and （40.25 ±9.07） scores, respectively,and the SAS scores of high-risk subtype HPV infected group was higher than that of low-risk subtype HPV infected group （ t =2.625, P ＆lt;0.01）.Conclusions Common psychosocial impact of HPV infected women was stigma , fear and self-blame. The SAS score of high-risk subtype HPV infected group was higher than that of low-risk subtype . Key words: Human papillomavirus; Gene; Cervical cancer; Psychosocial impacts