SLEEP QUALITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG BREAST CANCER PATIENTS POST MASTECTOMY

Abstract

The quality of life following mastectomy should be constructed to ensure the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of patients. Sleep disturbances are the most common and symptomatic burden in patients with breast cancer patients following mastectomy. Nonetheless, they are poorly managed in routine clinical practice. This research explores the relationship of sleep quality on quality of life among breast cancer patients following mastectomy. This research is cross sectional study conducted in 83 patients whom had undergone a mastectomy 6 months prior. The data was collected from Mei to August 2023. The questionnaires used were Pitssburg Sleep Quality Index and FACT-B. The fisher exact test were performed in the statistical analysis. Results showed that more than a half of patients (51.8%) had better quality of life. Contradictaly, mostly patients (90.4 %) had a poor sleep quality. The statistical analysis revealed that there is no correlation between the quality of life and sleep quality among breast cancer patients following mastectomy (p=0.267). Although the study findings found that there is no association between sleep quality and quality of life, there is a need for more detailed studies to explore determinant factors which increase sleep quality in these patients due to lack attention paid to this issue.