Psychosocial Health of Disease-Free Breast Cancer Survivors Compared with Matched Non-cancer Controls
- Title
- Psychosocial Health of Disease-Free Breast Cancer Survivors Compared with Matched Non-cancer Controls
- Author
- 박보영
- Keywords
- Breast cancer survivors; Psychosocial health; Psychosocial Well-being Index-Short Form; Community setting
- Issue Date
- 2019-01
- Publisher
- Korean Cancer Association
- Citation
- CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, v. 51, NO 1, Page. 178-186
- Abstract
- Purpose The present study investigated the psychosocial health of disease-free breast cancer survivors who receive health examinations compared to matched non-cancer controls in a community setting. Materials and Methods We used baseline data from the Health Examinee cohort, which is composed of subjects participating in health. The disease-free breast cancer survivors were defined as those who were ≥ 2 years from initial diagnosis of breast cancer who had completed treatment. Females without a history of cancer were randomly selected at 1:4 ratio by 5-year age groups, education, and household income as a comparison group. We analyzed results from the Psychosocial Well-being Index-Short Form (PWI-SF) as a psychosocial health measurement. Results A total of 347 survivors of breast cancer and 1,388 matched controls were included. Total scores on the PWI-SF were lower in breast cancer survivors than matched non-cancer controls (p=0.006), suggesting a lower level of psychosocial stress in breast cancer survivors. In comparison to the control group, prevalence of drinking, smoking and obesity were lower, while exercising for ≤ 150 min/wk was higher in breast cancer survivors (p < 0.05). These findings suggest that breast cancer survivors have better health behaviors than their non-cancer controls. After adjusting for other sociodemographic variables, breast cancer survivors were 36% less likely to be included in the stress group (odds ratio, 0.64; 95% confidence interval, 0.42 to 0.98). Conclusion The disease-free breast cancer survivors resuming daily life demonstrated better psychosocial health status compared to matched non-cancer controls.
- URI
- https://www.e-crt.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.4143/crt.2017.585https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/108101
- ISSN
- 1598-2998; 2005-9256
- DOI
- 10.4143/crt.2017.585
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