Eventos de vida em mulheres com diagnóstico de câncer de mama

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Dourado, Cláudia de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Mestrado em Saúde Coletiva; Centro de Ciências da Saúde; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva
• Palavras-chave em Português: Breast neoplasms; Life change events; Stress; Acontecimentos que mudam a vida; Neoplasias da mama; Estresse; Tumores; Mudanças de vida; Metástase; Saúde Coletiva; 614
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/1812

The relationship between life events and the onset and progression of breast cancer has been investigated by some studies. Objective: To identify the life events in women diagnosed with breast cancer, to examine the time between the event and the diagnosis of breast cancer and to examine the association between the overhead caused by the event at the time of occurrence and after diagnosis of these women. Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted at Hospital Santa Rita de Cássia, Vitória - ES. Consists the sample of 300 women. The data-collected from September to December 2014. We used the instrument Life Events Units – LEU/VAS that is based on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale of Holmes and Rahe, that in Brazil was adapted by Vasconcellos. Data were analyzed with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 20.0, to calculate the frequency frequency, mean, median and standard deviation and apply the non-parametric Wilcoxon and chi-square tests. Results: The mean age was 53 years. Predominated women with race/color non-white (65%), with less than 8 years of education (64%) and married (54%). It was found that most of the sample reported at least one life event (99,3%). The main reported life event was the death of someone in the family. The median time interval between the most reported life events and the diagnosis of breast cancer ranged from 5 to 15 years. It was observed significant difference (p <0.05) between the overload caused by life events in the two examined moments. In relation to metastasis, 31.7% of those who have relapsed reported one or more life events (p = 0.001). When considering the time between diagnosis and the onset of metastasis in 46 women, a median of 18.0 months was observed. Conclusion: The results of this study are potentially important as they support a possible interaction between life events after diagnosis of breast cancer and metastasis. Future studies are needed to better understand this relationship.