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- * Results indicated that many participants experienced significant symptoms like depression (51.7%) and cancer-related fatigue (78.8%). Higher emotional acceptance correlated with lower depression levels, while avoidance coping linked to increased depressive symptoms and fatigue.
- * The findings suggest that promoting emotional acceptance and reducing avoidance coping could help lessen cancer-related symptoms, emphasizing the need for professionals to address these aspects in post-treatment care for cancer survivors.
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Purpose: The study aims to provide a better understanding of the relationship between emotional processing, coping, and cancer-related sickness symptoms.
Methods: The study used a cross-sectional, secondary analysis of data from 179 Israeli Jewish women who were breast cancer survivors (BCS) 3 to 18 months after completing primary treatment and who participated in a larger randomized controlled trial (REPAT study). Data were collected at baseline. Participants completed questionnaires measuring emotion acceptance, situational approach, avoidance coping, and cancer-related sickness symptoms (depression, fatigue, and pain) and a performance measure of emotional awareness. Hierarchical linear regressions were performed, controlling for background variables.
Results: Participants experienced significant clinical depression (51.7%), cancer-related fatigue (CRF, 78.8%), pain interference (78%), and pain intensity (66%) levels. There were strong correlations between cancer-related symptoms. After controlling for confounders, emotional processing (acceptance) was negatively associated with depression, and avoidance coping was positively associated with depression, CRF, and pain interference (i.e., higher use of avoidance related to higher cancer-related symptoms; higher acceptance was associated with lower depression). Emotional awareness and coping by approaching emotions were not related to cancer-related symptoms.
Conclusions: The BCS posttreatment period presents the challenge of dealing with elevated cancer-related symptoms. Regardless, BCS who used high emotional processing levels-especially acceptance of emotion and lower reliance on avoidance to cope-experienced fewer cancer-related symptoms.
Implications For Cancer Survivors: Professionals should recognize the potential role of emotional processing and avoidant coping relative to cancer-related symptoms and recognize their patterns in posttreatment patients.
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