Well-being of newly diagnosed women with breast cancer: which factors matter more?

Ivanaūskienė, Rugile; Padaiga, Žilvinas; Šimoliūnienė, Renata; Smailytė, Giedrė; Domeikienė, Auksė

doi:10.1007/s00520-013-2005-2

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“…Our second main result was that depression, personality disorders, and coping were three independent risk factors for lower QOL. The fact that major depressive disorder was the variable associated with the strongest decrease in QOL on all three dimensions (decrease of 38.2 points on emotional QOL, 24.2 points on global QOL, and 10.6 points on physical QOL) is in line with previous studies [12,32,33]. Depression can have a direct (e.g., via a systematic cognitive bias regarding the treatment of information that leads to a negative self-assessment of health) or indirect (e.g., via a greater difficulty with acquiring new coping strategies that improve QOL) impact on QOL [34].…”

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Major depressive disorder, personality disorders, and coping strategies are independent risk factors for lower quality of life in non‐metastatic breast cancer patients

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Major depressive disorder, personality disorders, and coping strategies are independent risk factors for lower quality of life in non‐metastatic breast cancer patients

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“…The studies consider a variety of participant characteristics, with most study samples nearly equally distributed between men and women, although one study only considers men [ 38 ] and six studies only women [ 30 , 31 , 32 , 39 , 40 , 41 ]. Different cancer entities are distributed across studies with primarily gynaecological ( n = 26), gastrointestinal ( n = 21) and urogenital ( n = 18) cancers.…”

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Patient-Reported Financial Distress in Cancer: A Systematic Review of Risk Factors in Universal Healthcare Systems

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Surmann

Mehlis

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Financial toxicity is a side effect of cancer that results from the perceived financial distress an individual may experience in the course of the disease. The purpose of this paper is to analyse underlying factors related to subjective financial distress in high-income countries with universal healthcare coverage. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify qualitative and quantitative studies of cancer patient-reported subjective financial distress by performing a search in the databases of PubMed, PsycINFO and CINAHL up to December 2020. A qualitative synthesis was performed linking the time-dependent occurrence of risk factors to derived categories of risk factors. Out of 4321 identified records, 30 quantitative and 16 qualitative studies were eligible. Classification of risk factors resulted in eight categories with a total of 34 subcategories. Subjective financial distress is primarily determined by pre-diagnosis sociodemographic- factors as well as financial and work factors that might change during the course of the disease. The design of healthcare and social security systems shapes the country-specific degree of subjective financial distress. Further research should focus on evolving multidisciplinary intervention schemes and multidimensional instruments for subjective financial distress to account for identified risk factors in universal healthcare systems more precisely.

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“…An earlier stage of cancer was found to be a predictor for an improvement in physical health-related quality of life (HRQoL) [7]. Ivanauskiene [11] evaluated self-reported HRQoL within 1 year after breast cancer diagnosis in order to determine important factors associated with self-reported impaired HRQoL.…”

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“…Psychological factors also play a role in the prevention of side effects, and optimization of expectations might be a potential pathway in an effort to improve the patients' quality of life during a long-term administration of medication(s) [10]. From the socioeconomic point of view, a lower level of education, bad financial situation, unemployment and lack of psychological counselling all contribute to a deterioration in QoL [11,12].…”

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Predictors of quality of life in Czech female breast cancer survivors following treatment with special interest to coping strategies

Jarkovský¹,

Skřivanová²,

Benešová³

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Objectives: This study examined the prognostic significance of breast cancer patients' characteristics (coping strategies, BMI, age) and disease characteristics (stage of disease, relapse) with respect to quality of life (QoL) following treatment. Sample and settings: 120 breast cancer patients following treatment were recruited. Health-related QoL was assessed using the Czech version of FACT-B and SF-36; additionally, we used a life satisfaction questionnaire. Coping strategies were assessed using the SVF-78 method. In our sample of women, the average time from diagnosis to start of the study was 5.3 years. Statistical analysis: Factors influencing QoL after treatment were analysed with univariate and multivariate linear regression. Results: Overall negative strategy defined in SVF-78 (Flight tendency, Resignation and Self-accusation) was found to be associated with lower scores of most components of used QoL methods, while Resignation was found as the most negatively influencing strategy. Active problem confrontation (Situation control and Positive self-instruction) was associated with better QoL. More advanced stages and recurrence were related to a significant decrease in QoL for certain components only. Conclusion: Our findings suggest a significant predictive power of disease-related factors and of patients' characteristics including coping strategies for QoL following treatment in Czech breast cancer survivors.

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Well-being of newly diagnosed women with breast cancer: which factors matter more?

Abstract: Psychosocial, but not clinical, factors were the prevalent predictive factors in impaired HRQL. Early identification of women that are at risk of poorer HRQL and interventions of psychosocial support following breast cancer diagnosis are recommended.

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Major depressive disorder, personality disorders, and coping strategies are independent risk factors for lower quality of life in non‐metastatic breast cancer patients

Major depressive disorder, personality disorders, and coping strategies are independent risk factors for lower quality of life in non‐metastatic breast cancer patients

Patient-Reported Financial Distress in Cancer: A Systematic Review of Risk Factors in Universal Healthcare Systems

Predictors of quality of life in Czech female breast cancer survivors following treatment with special interest to coping strategies

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