Social relationships and their associations with affective symptoms of women with breast cancer: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Problems in affective and cognitive functioning are among the most common concurrent symptoms that breast cancer patients report. Social relationships may provide some explanations of the clinical variability in affective-cognitive symptoms. Evidence suggests that social relationships (functional and structural aspects) can be associated with patients' affective-cognitive symptoms; however, such an association has not been well studied in the context of breast cancer.

Purpose

The purpose of this scoping review was to address the following question: What social relationships are associated with affective-cognitive symptoms of women with breast cancer?

Methods

This scoping review used the framework proposed by Arksey and O'Malley and PRISMA-Sc. Studies publis

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9359609 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature