"Impacto de la Alopecia Inducida Por Quimioterapia en la Calidad de Vida de Mujeres Con cáncer de Mama"

The main objective of this study is to understand the impact of chemotherapy-induced alopecia, the quality of life of women with breast cancer from this experience.

Therefore, it is a qualitative phenomenological study. The problem of the study is the impact of alopecia as a side effect of chemotherapy in women with breast cancer in the areas of privacy, welfare, sexuality and femininity, self-esteem, social relations and the world of work.

The study will be conducted in the day hospital oncology-hematology of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Data collection will be done through semi-structured interviews. Each interview will last between 60 and 90 minutes will be the participant who decides the date and time. The site will be a day hospital office.

It will be the same researcher who interviewed and analyze them. To make the selection of participants with an opinion sampling is performed. Attracting participants who are patients in the study investigator.

Inclusion criteria are: being female, of age, suffer from breast cancer, receive or have received chemotherapy have the side effect of alopecia and alopecia file or have filed at the time of the interview. Excluded from the study participants to present cognitive impairment, intellectual disability, presence of disease that prevents the story of their experience and / or not be able to sign the study informed orally and written consent.