Globally, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women (Carayol et al., 2012;Morgan, 2018) particularly in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as Nigeria (Abiodun Olatunde et al., 2012;Afolayan et al., 2012). Most women with a breast cancer diagnosis frequently develop psychopathological disturbances during medical treatment (de Caralho et al., 2015;Kissane et al., 2004) or during follow-up (Celik et al., 2016). After treatment, most women are especially weighed down by threat of death, risk of recurrence, concern for the future, physical and treatment-related issues, fatigue, body image impairment, relationship and occupational diffi-