PMID: 11338763May 8, 2001Paper

Depression burden, self-help interventions, and side effect experience in women receiving treatment for breast cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum
T A BadgerM H Mishel

Abstract

To describe effects of a set of Self-Help Intervention Project (SHIP) interventions with self-reported depression burden on the side effect experience of women receiving treatment for breast cancer. Repeated measures, experimental design. Outpatient sites at a regional cancer center, private practices, and health maintenance organizations. 169 women who completed data at all three data-collection points were used to answer the research questions. Following random assignment, individuals in the treatment group participated in five different, but complementary, self-help interventions for six weeks. The control group received the usual care. Variables were measured at baseline after radiation, chemotherapy, or hormone therapies were started to allow for the side effects to emerge at six to eight weeks after treatment and three months following time 2. Depression burden, fatigue burden, pain burden, nausea burden, difficulty concentrating burden, anxiety burden, number of side effects, severity of side effects, and participation in the interventions. Self-reported depression burden was found to significantly influence severity of side effects, number of side effects, and the burdens of fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and anxiet...Continue Reading

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