TY - JOUR
AU1 - Carpenter, Janet S.
AB - Copyright B 2008 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Diane M. Von Ah, PhD, RN Duck-Hee Kang, PhD, RN, FAAN Janet S. Carpenter, PhD, RN Predictors of Cancer-Related Fatigue in Women With Breast Cancer Before, During, and After Adjuvant Therapy KEY W OR DS The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine potential predictors of Breast cancer cancer-related fatigue (CRF) before, during, and after adjuvant therapy in women Cancer-related fatigue with breast cancer. A convenience sample of 44 women postsurgery (M = 18) aged Interleukin-1" 38 to 77 years (M = 52) were recruited from a Southern breast clinic. Based on Morning cortisol Piper’s Integrated Fatigue Model, the women (1) completed questionnaires assessing Mood disturbance innate host factors (age, income, and education level), disease and treatment patterns (disease stage, surgery type, and adjuvant therapy), psychological patterns (perceived stress, mood disturbance, and optimism), social patterns (type and satisfaction with social support) and (2) provided a blood sample to examine regulation patterns (morning cortisol levels, interleukin-1", tumor necrosis factor alpha, and natural killer cell activity) before adjuvant therapy. The Piper Fatigue ScaleYRevised was completed at all 3 time points. Mood disturbance was the most significant predictor of CRF 
TI - Predictors of Cancer-Related Fatigue in Women With Breast Cancer Before, During, and After Adjuvant Therapy
JF - Cancer Nursing
DO - 10.1097/01.NCC.0000305704.84164.54
DA - 2008-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/predictors-of-cancer-related-fatigue-in-women-with-breast-cancer-b9GTA3Mg1Q
SP - 134
EP - 144
VL - 31
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -