ArticleCancer nursing
Psychological Symptom Cluster Severity Profiles Are Associated With Higher Levels of Stress and Worse Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer.
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- When body image and fear collide: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative (fsQCA) and mediation analysis of sufficient pathways to post-traumatic stress in breast cancer survivors.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Profiling of psychoneurological symptoms in newly diagnosed head and neck cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Impact of stress and coping strategies on quality of life in hematological malignancies: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2025Article
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backgroundAlthough common, the severity of the psychological symptom cluster (PSC) (ie, co-occurrence of anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep disturbance) varies among women with breast cancer. In addition, the impact of various types of stress and other risk factors on its severity are understudied, and the influence of the PSC on quality of life (QOL) outcomes remains poorly characterized.
objectiveTo identify subgroups of postmenopausal women with breast cancer with distinct PSC severity profiles following surgery and evaluate whether these subgroups differed in terms of demographic and clinical characteristics, symptoms, social and posttraumatic stress, and QOL.
methodsFollowing surgery, 159 postmenopausal women with early-stage, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer completed assessments of anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep disturbance, cognitive function, physical symptoms, stress, and QOL. Latent profile analysis was used to identify subgroups of women based on the severity of the prespecified PSC. Parametric and nonparametric tests were used to evaluate for subgroup differences.
resultsThree distinct PSC severity subgroups were identified (ie, Lower [71.7%], Moderate [23.9%], Higher [4.4%]). Compared with the Lower subgroup, the Moderate subgroup was less likely to have received prior radiation, and the Moderate and Higher subgroups had worse perceived cognitive function, higher symptom burden, higher posttraumatic stress, and lower QOL. Clinically relevant sleep disturbance was common across PSC subgroups.
conclusionsPSC severity is associated with higher posttraumatic stress and poorer QOL following breast surgery. Sleep disturbance is a common problem and may be undertreated. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Assessments of posttraumatic stress and sleep disturbance are needed for timely intervention.
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