ArticleIntegrative cancer therapies2018
Open to Exploration? Association of Personality Factors With Complementary Therapy Use After Breast Cancer Treatment.
Article in Integrative cancer therapies, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03475433 (An Observational Prospective Cohort Study About Quality of Life in Relation to the Physical Activity of Taiwanese Breast and Prostate Cancer Patients.), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.
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An Observational Prospective Cohort Study About Quality of Life in Relation to the Physical Activity of Taiwanese Breast and Prostate Cancer Patients.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Complementary and alternative medicine and musculoskeletal pain in the first year of adjuvant aromatase inhibitor treatment in early breast cancer patients.Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2020Trial
- Actor-Partner Effects of Personality Traits and Psychological Flexibility on Psychological Distress Among Couples Coping with Cancer.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Type D Personality and Big Five Personality Traits and the Risk of Breast Cancer: A Case-Control Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Active Participation, Mind-Body Stabilization, and Coping Strategies with Integrative Medicine in Breast Cancer Patients.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
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Abstract
purposeMany cancer survivors seek complementary therapies (CTs) to improve their quality of life. While it is well-known that women who are younger, more highly educated, and have higher incomes are more likely to use CTs, individual differences such as personality factors have been largely unexplored as predictors of CT use.
methodsIn a secondary analysis of a larger study, 270 women with stage I to III breast cancer completed self-report measures of demographic and illness-related information, personality variables, and use of several different types of CTs. A series of logistic regression models were used to explore whether demographic, illness-related, and personality variables predicted different types of CT use.
resultsPrior relationships between education and CT use were replicated. There were no significant relationships between illness-related variables and different types of CT use. Of the 5 personality factors, only openness to experience was a significant predictor of multiple types of CT use.
conclusionsOpenness to experience may represent an individual difference variable that predicts CT use among cancer survivors. CTs themselves may represent a form of intellectual curiosity and novelty seeking. Further studies are needed to replicate and examine the generalizability of the relationship between openness to experience and CT use in oncology populations.
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