Executive Functioning and Depressive Symptoms After Cancer: The Mediating Role of Coping.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Cognitive difficulties are a common complaint among patients with breast cancer and may adversely affect psychological well-being. In particular, problems with executive functioning (EF) may interfere with coping, which is known to influence depressive symptoms. The current study was designed to examine correlations between EF, coping, and depressive symptoms in breast cancer survivors and to longitudinally test the hypothesis that coping mediates the relationship between EF and depressive symptoms.

Methods

Participants included 171 women with early-stage breast cancer assessed at the end of primary treatment with surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy and at 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years after treatment follow-ups as part of the Mind-Body Study. Participants comp

SUBMITTER: Radin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8691137 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature