Body image changes associated with dual-chamber pacemaker insertion in women

Purpose udy’s purpose was to examine body image changes in subjects participating in a long-term multicenter pacemaker trial. s dy closeout, 383 adults, all of whom had received a dual-chamber pacemaker, completed questionnaires evaluating what effect their pacemaker or pacemaker site and scar had on them or their spouses or significant others. s eported that their pacemaker did not change the way they or their spouses or significant others felt about their body (73.2% and 93.5%, respectively). Most (87.1%) denied feeling differently because of the pacemaker site and scar. Most were not concerned how their clothes fit or about wearing a swimsuit (92.0% and 90.7%, respectively). Women were more concerned about how the pacemaker site and scar made them feel about their body (P = .001), clothes fitting (P = .002), and wearing a swimsuit (P = .004). Men were more concerned with how their spouses or significant others perceived them postimplantation (P = .021). sions ubjects did not express undue concern about changes in body image.