Hilton Shona, Hunt Kate, Emslie Carol, Salinas Maria, Ziebland Sue
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Psychooncology. 2008 Jun;17(6):577-83. doi: 10.1002/pon.1272.
The objective of this study is to compare men and women's accounts of chemotherapy-induced alopecia.
Secondary analysis of narrative interview data.
Thirty-seven people aged 18-38 years, including 11 men and 8 women who had experienced hair loss, interviewed between 2000 and 2005.
Participants were recruited throughout the United Kingdom.
Hair loss made many men and women acutely aware of their vulnerability and visibility as a 'cancer patient'. Both men and women described a sense of strangeness or shock when they lost their hair and experienced various negative reactions when people assumed their hairless appearance was a lifestyle choice. The most striking contrast in men's and women's accounts was that women spoke solely of the loss of hair from the head and face above the eye line, and men spoke about losing hair from wider body surfaces. Only women mentioned being encouraged by others to disguise or to prevent hair loss. The results are discussed in relation to gendered assumptions about the distribution of body hair.
Contrary to prevailing assumptions, both women and men described negative (and often similar) feelings about hair loss. Understanding these experiences can help professionals better equip their patients to deal with this aspect of their treatment.
本研究的目的是比较男性和女性对化疗引起脱发的描述。
对叙事访谈数据进行二次分析。
37名年龄在18 - 38岁之间的人，其中包括2000年至2005年间接受访谈的11名经历过脱发的男性和8名经历过脱发的女性。
参与者来自英国各地。
脱发让许多男性和女性敏锐地意识到自己作为“癌症患者”的脆弱性和显眼程度。男性和女性都描述了脱发时的陌生感或震惊感，当人们认为他们的光头形象是一种生活方式选择时，他们会有各种负面反应。男性和女性描述中最显著的差异在于，女性只谈到了眼线上方头部和面部的脱发，而男性则谈到了身体更广泛部位的脱发。只有女性提到受到他人鼓励去掩饰或防止脱发。结合关于身体毛发分布的性别假设对结果进行了讨论。
与普遍的假设相反，男性和女性都描述了对脱发的负面（且往往相似）感受。了解这些经历有助于专业人员更好地帮助患者应对治疗的这一方面。
