Sleep quality is associated with Disability and Quality of life in breast cancer survivors: a cross‐sectional pilot study

• Published in: European journal of cancer care Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. e13339 - n/a
• Main Authors: Lourenço, Adriano, Dantas, Amanda Almeida Gomes, Souza, Jane Carla, Araujo, Camilla Medeiros, Araujo, Diego Neves, Lima, Illia Nadinne Dantas Florentino, Dantas, Diego de Sousa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Hindawi Limited 01-01-2021
• Subjects: Breast cancer; cancer survivors; Correlation analysis; Data collection; Disabilities; Disability; disability evaluation; Fatigue; Nursing; Quality assessment; Quality of life; Regression analysis; Schedules; Sleep; sleep disorders; Statistical analysis; Survival; breast cancer; fatigue; sleep disorders; quality of life; cancer survivors; disability evaluation
• ISSN: 0961-5423; 1365-2354
• DOI: 10.1111/ecc.13339

Purpose
To evaluate the sleep quality and its association with disability, fatigue and quality of life of breast cancer survivors.
Methods
This is a cross‐sectional pilot study developed with breast cancer survivors. The data collection instruments consisted of general and clinical information on the disease and the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0); Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy‐Fatigue (FACIT‐F); and Disabilities of the arm and Shoulder (DASH). Descriptive statistical analysis, correlation tests, tests for means comparison and linear regression were performed. Cohen's d analysed the effect size. The significance was set at p < 0.05.
Results
71,9% of women had poor sleep quality. Subjective poor sleep quality was a predictor of worse scores for fatigue (p = 0.007), quality of life by FACT‐G (p = 0.010) and FACIT‐F (p = 0.004), the functional performance of upper limbs (p = 0.001) and disability (p = 0.003).
Conclusions
Breast cancer survivors with subjective poor sleep quality had more fatigue, less upper limb‐related functional performance, more disability and worse quality of life.