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Breast implants and illness: a model of psychological factors
D M Dush
Department of
Psychology, 118 Sloan Hall, Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant,
MI 48859, USA
Accepted for publication 23 January
2001
Studies of disease outcomes have not produced an explanation or
an intervention for the symptoms and complaints that some women have
attributed to breast implants. Reviews of the literature have found no
increased risk of specific systemic disease, and no treatment
recommendations have emerged. However, similar symptoms in
fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and other contexts have been considered
to be stress or behaviourally mediated, and a number of promising
behavioural interventions have been developed. Aetiological, research,
and treatment implications may follow from the consideration of such
symptoms within a behavioural medicine model that allows for the
interaction of physical and psychological influences. In the case of
implants, a mass somatisation model may also help to discern the
potential effects of litigation and other social influences.
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