Relationship of sleep-quality and social-anxiety in patients with breast cancer: a network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a complex relationship between social anxiety and sleep quality. However, network analysis studies of associations between social anxiety and sleep quality are lacking, particularly among patients with breast cancer. The current study aimed to extend this research to a sample of patients with breast cancer and to examine symptom-level associations between social anxiety and sleep quality using network analysis.

Methods

Network analysis was conducted to explore their associations and identify bridge items of social anxiety and sleep quality.

Results

The network structure revealed 9 important edges between social anxiety and sleep quality. "Subjective sleep quality" had the highest EI value in the network. "Working difficulty under watching" and "Sle

SUBMITTER: He C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10683122 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature