Breast Cancer Survivorship & Work-Related Cognitive Limitation

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer

In brief

The proposed study seeks to evaluate the relationship between biopsychosocial functioning and work-related cognitive limitation among employed breast cancer survivors in a cross-sectional study with healthy control group. Specifically, this study will assess work-related cognitive limitation in association with depression, anxiety, pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and cognitive deficit of employed women with and without history of breast cancer. The primary purpose of this study is to assess the impact of objective cognitive functioning as a better predictor of cognitive shortcomings at work place in comparison to a self-report cognitive measure. The secondary purpose is to assess work related cognitive limitation in breast cancer survivors in comparison to their counterparts (employed women without history of cancer diagnosis). The third purpose is to explore how sociodemographic variables such as marital status, education, age, race, and ethnicity relates to perceived cognitive limitation at work among breast cancer survivors. Additionally, the study will examine the effects of medical variables as covariates on these relationships. Subsequently, the study will examine the level of mindful attention and awareness as a possible mediator between the psychological, somatic and cognitive distress and the work-related cognitive limitation. In this observational study, the control group is added as a mean to compare differences between groups and that no variables is being manipulated in this study. This precludes this research from being a quasi- or a true experimental design.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02303145

Run by

Tara Emrani

People needed

187

Starts

2014-09-01

Expected to finish

2015-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-05-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 69. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Diagnosis of dementia, history of brain injury and adult attention deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), epilepsy, current drug or alcohol abuse

Where it is running

• Palo Alto University — Palo Alto, California, United States

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