Network Analyses Applied to the Dimensions of Cancer-Related Fatigue in Women With Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding cancer symptom cluster through network analyses is a new approach in oncology, revealing interconnected and influential relationships among reported symptoms. We aimed to assess these relationships using network analysis in posttreatment breast cancer patients, focusing on the five dimensions of cancer-related fatigue (CRF), and on other common difficulties encountered by oncological patients (i.e., pain, anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, cognitive impairments, and emotion regulation and mental adaptation difficulties).

Method

This study involved a complementary analysis of data from two interventional studies. Participants completed questionnaires before and after the intervention, with baseline scores being used in this article. Partial corr

SUBMITTER: Baussard L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11465027 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature