Multivariate analysis of control variables in clinical assessment of body image/Multivarijatna analiza kontroliranih varijabli u klinickoj procjeni slike tijela

Body image as a clinical entity is an exceptionally complex issue. This topic has been the subject of a number of contemporary scientific and clinical research studies, conducted by authors from various disciplines in the field of biomedical, humanistic and other sciences, as well as in the field of rehabilitation sciences. In such research studies the authors apply different theoretical and intertheoretical approaches to the study of factors affecting the development of body image experience in a person. Within that framework, a systematic analysis of scientific papers published in fifteen relevant scientific journals worldwide has been presented in this paper. It comprises a sample of 158 scientific papers, classified in the research procedure into three subsamples: a) general baselines in diagnostics, therapy and evaluation of body image experience; b) body image experience in breast cancer patients; and c) an analysis of keywords with special emphasis on the terms breast cancer and body image. An analysis of original data for control variables has been conducted with application of canonical covariance analysis. Normality of frequency distributions was tested by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Basic statistical parameters were computed in all qualitative variables. Obtained results have shown a wide range of problem fields the author focussed on, as well as different concepts of research applied therein. Based on the obtained results, a need was identified to develop new systematic multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches in diagnostic, therapeutical, educational and rehabilitational approaches. The presented results arise from the scientific research project "Complementary Supportive Therapies and Development of Life Potentials", conducted with the support of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia. Keywords: body image, interdisciplinarity, comparative analysis, scientific and clinical research studies Pojam slike tijela kao klinicki entitet je iznimno kompleksan. Ova tema je predmet brojnih suvremenih znanstvenih i klinickih istrazivanja kojima se bave autori iz raznih disciplina u podrucju biomedicinskih, humanistickih i drugih znanosti, dakle i u podrucju rehabilitacijskih znanosti. U tim istrazivanjima, autori koriste razne teorijske i interteorijske pristupe u proucavanju cimbenika koji utjecu na razvoj dozivljaja slike tijela u osobe. U tom okviru i u ovom radu, prikazana je sustavna analiza znanstvenih ra