ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2021
Coping profiles predict long-term anxiety trajectory in breast cancer survivors.
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Abstract
This study examined the long-term trajectory patterns of anxiety in breast cancer survivors and identified its predicting variables, especially the type of coping profile. Eighty-one patients who completed all four questionnaires from the 10-year study were included in the analysis. Anxiety scores from the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were used in latent class growth analysis to chart the anxiety trajectory of cancer survivors. Demographic variables, clinical variables, depression level, and coping profiles (adaptive versus maladaptive) were used as predictors. Our study identified a two-class model of long-term anxiety trajectory among breast cancer survivors, with a resistant group (85.2%) and a distress group (14.8%). Demographic and clinical variables were not associated with anxiety trajectory paths. On the other hand, maladaptive coping characterized by higher scores in helplessness/hopelessness, cognitive avoidance, and anxious preoccupation, and lower scores in fighting spirit and fatalism in the Mini-MAC was a significant predictor of distressed anxiety. Coping profiles identified using the Mini-MAC were predictive of long-term anxiety trajectory among breast cancer survivors in our survey. Early interventions on coping with cancer could reduce long-term anxiety problems.
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