Trajectories of cognitive symptoms and associated factors in cancer survivors after return to work: an 18-month longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Cognitive symptoms affect cancer survivors' functioning at work. To date, cognitive symptoms trajectories in working cancer survivors and the factors associated with these trajectories have not been examined.

Methods

Data from a heterogeneous group of working cancer survivors (n = 379) of the longitudinal "Work-Life-after-Cancer" study, linked with Netherlands Cancer Registry data, were used. The Cognitive Symptom Checklist-Work was administered at baseline (within the first 3 months after return to work), 6-, 12-, and 18-month follow-up to measure self-perceived memory and executive function symptoms. Data were analyzed using group-based trajectory modeling.

Results

Four trajectories of memory and executive function symptoms were identified. All memory sympto

SUBMITTER: Ehrenstein JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10036271 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature