Psychopathology among individuals seeking minimally invasive cosmetic procedures

Abstract

Objectives In recent years, so many people want to alter their physical appearance with the purpose of raising their social and psychological well‐being and the demand for minimally invasive cosmetic procedures (MICPs) has continued to rise. Our study aims to investigate the psychological profile of people seeking cosmetic procedures. Study Design The present observational cross‐sectional study was conducted with a sample of 54 participants seeking cosmetic procedures (botulinum toxin injections, soft tissue filler injection, mesotherapy, platelet‐rich plasma, and dermaroller treatments). Those patients were compared to the control group, who did not have any kind of cosmetic procedure (including cosmetic surgery) before and who did not want to have any of these procedures. Methods The research volunteers were invited to complete the demographic questionnaire (e.g., age, gender and history of procedures) as well as psychological scales. Psychological scales includes the validated and reliable The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Automatic Thoughts Scale (ATS), and Social Adaptation Self‐Evaluation Scale (SASS). Results Users of MICP were mostly female (n = 46, 85%) and had some high school education or higher and showed higher scores on General Severity Index (P = .013), anxiety (P = .018), depression (P = .004), interpersonal sensitivity (P = .008) of BSI and also higher on ATS (P = .022) and lower on SASS (P = .001) scores that mean less social adaptation. There was a statistically positive correlation between age and GSI, anxiety, depression, interpersonal sensitivity, somatization scores of BSI, and negative correlations between SASS scores and age and number of past procedures. Conclusion Our study findings highlight the importance of understanding individuals’ psychological symptoms who are seeking cosmetic procedures.

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“…The histrionic resorts to such interventions (which are sometimes unnecessary) every time he perceives a small defect in the body (AlaviHejazi et al, 2017;Nakamura and Koo, 2021). Another disorder that is related to the acceptance of cosmetic surgery is obsessivecompulsive personality disorder (Barahmand et al, 2010;Ramos et al, 2019), characterized by the paying of excessive attention to details, rules and organization, and when OCD people follow such a procedure we see unrealistic and extremely optimistic expectations about the results, a fixation on minor flaws and the desire to discover as much information as possible about the intervention in an attempt to control the whole experience (Camsari and Jowsey-Gregoire, 2019;Özkur et al, 2020). In addition to the two previously mentioned, borderline personality disorder too -characterized by impulsivity, emotional and relational instability, and fluctuations in self-image (Napoleon, 1993) -is associated with interest in cosmetic surgery Vizgaitis and Lenzenweger, 2019); in a study by , a patient injured her upper eyelids following the operation, in a moment of impulsivity and due to abandonment anxiety.…”

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“…The fact that MICPs are easy to reach for patients and quick to apply for physicians probably contributes to increase the demand and acceptance of middle-aged women to make such procedures and to have a natural look without significant difficulties as general anesthesia, surgical incisions and preoperative preparing are not needed. [4], [5] Factors associated with growing interest in cosmetic procedures include older age, having children, higher household income, lower education, and greater acceptance of media images of draw. [6] .…”

“…Figure 4 Distribution of subjects according to quality selection of the injected material for esthetic proceduresAbout 41% (164 of the studied subjects), would prefer to suffer from injection pain just for more beautiful appearance, while 59% (236 of the studied subjects) would not, and as shown in figure(5).…”