Psychological predictors of chemotherapy-induced nausea in women with breast cancer: Expectancies and perceived susceptibility.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Chemotherapy-induced nausea is challenging to predict and treat. Research indicates that pretreatment psychological variables including patients' perceptions of their susceptibility to nausea, expectancies of treatment-related nausea and nausea history (i.e., motion sickness, morning sickness and baseline levels of nausea) may aid in predicting nausea severity during chemotherapy. However, this research is dated and limited in quantity. We investigated whether psychological variables could improve prediction of nausea severity to inform interventions targeting chemotherapy-induced nausea.

Methods

In this secondary analysis, a subgroup of women receiving chemotherapy (for the first time) for breast cancer completed pretreatment measures: perceived nausea susceptibil

SUBMITTER: Devlin EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9022467 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature