Sleep, fatigue, and depressive symptoms in breast cancer survivors and matched healthy women experiencing hot flashes.

Purposes/objectives: To compare sleep quality and disturbance, fatigue, and depressive symptoms between breast cancer survivors and healthy women experiencing hot flashes and to examine relationships among sleep and remaining variables (fatigue, depressive symptoms, and frequency of hot flashes).

Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive, comparative pilot study.

Setting: University-based outpatient setting.