... be a negative or positive experience depending on the individual's personal circumstances. For some it brings release from unbearable or life threatening illness, but women may feel that their womanhood is threatened and may have to forgo any chance of having children naturally. For many women the effects hysterectomy can have on role function, self-concept, body image and physiology may cause a life crisis (Sharts-Hopko 2001). Research into recovery from hysterectomy received sparse attention before 1980's. It was not until 1986 the Government announced a minister in Department of Health who would have special responsibilities for women's problems (Holdsworth 1991). Many nursing studies span over a twenty-year period (Webb et al 1983b, Gould 1985, Laliinec -Michaud et al 1989, Wade et al 2000) have shown to be varied and conflicting when referring to women's experiences in the recovery from a hysterectomy. In the U.K. Gould and Wilson Barnett (1985) were among ...

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