Tendency of diapause symptoms in breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

VernacularTitle:乳腺癌患者化疗间歇期症状的变化趋势
Author: Jiayuan ZHANG ; Yuqiu ZHOU ; Quanzhi ZHANG ; Ping XUE ; Huixia HUO
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: breast cancer; sleep quality; fatigue; anxiety; depression; change
From: Modern Clinical Nursing 2015;(2):1-5
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the tendency of diapause symptoms in breast cancer patients during their chemotherapy. Method Sixty-four breast cancer patients with chemotherapy participated in the study by using Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), the cancer fatigue scale (CFS), the self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and the self-rating depression scale (SDS) to assess their sleep, fatigue, anxiety and depression at every first day from the second course to sixth one of chemotherapy. Results The diapause symptoms including fatigue, sleep disorders, anxiety and depression varied with the therapeutic course progressing. The conditions in sleep quality, fatigue and depression were the poorest at the diapause of the fourth course and the condition of anxiety was the poorest at the diapause of the third course. Conclusion The medical staff should attach importance to the patients'physical and mental problems brought by the process of chemotherapy, strengthen the regulation of psychosomatic symptoms during chemotherapic diapause, and give reasonable control and intervention before the symptoms deteriorating.