Eating behavior in patients with breast cancer

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Patients with breast cancer in remission tend to be overweight; however, the global literature has no data on eating disorders in this category of women.

AIM: To identify any potential eating disorders and their association with personality traits and emotional condition of women who underwent radical treatment for breast cancer and do not show any disease progression.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-two women who completed breast cancer treatment and did not show any disease progression in one year were asked to fill in Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) and Big Five personality test and were evaluated with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Microsoft Excel and Statistica 10.0 were used for statistical data processing. The critical significance level was p <0.05.

RESULTS: 81.3% of the patients were overweight. A serious eating disorder was found in one patient. In 15.6% of patients were was evidence of strained relationship food. A statistically significant association was established between Neuroticism and Depression ( r =0.362) and between Agreeableness and Level of anxiety ( r =0.37). No correlation was discovered for the probability of an eating disorder and “level of anxiety/depression.”

CONCLUSION: Serious eating disorders seem to be uncharacteristic of patients with breast cancer who have completed the treatment. The following pairs of descriptors were found to be associated: Agreeableness/Anxiety and Neuroticism/Depression.

Keywords

breast cancer / eating disorder / overweight / personality traits

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