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Conference Paper: Sleeping quality, negative emotions and the awakening cortisol level in female breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment
Title | Sleeping quality, negative emotions and the awakening cortisol level in female breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment |
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Keywords | Medical sciences |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/12160 |
Citation | The 34th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2013), San Francisco, CA., 20-23 March 2013. In Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2013, v. 45 n. 2 suppl., p. s197, abstract no. C-025 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Sleep disturbance is one of the common side effects experienced by cancer patients during treatment. Poor sleeping quality and sleepiness are not only affecting daily functioning of patients, it affects their immune system. In this study, we examined the sleeping quality of 156 Chinese breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy using the Chinese Pittsburg Sleep-Quality Index (C-PSQI), Participants were recruited from local hospital and community cancer support centers. Psychological distress was measured with Chinese Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Chinese Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). Morning saliva sample at awakening was also collected. Based on C-PSQI result, 65 % met or exceed the standard cut-off score for sleep problems (>5) and 51%reached the higher cut-off score (>=8). Participants with poor sleep quality also reported higher anxious and depressive emotions in the HADS(t=−5.22; p<.001) and higher stress level in PSS (t=−4.395; p<.001).Moreover, he mean awakening cortisol level of participants with better sleep quality is 9.68−6.25 nmol/l, while the participants with poor sleep quality mean awakening cortisol level is 8.57−4.69 nmol/l. Results suggest that poor sleep quality may relate to the psychological stress and negative emotions as well as Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis functioning. Acknowledgement: This study is supported by the Research Grants Council General Research Fund (HKU745110H) and Hong Kong Cancer Fund. We would like to thanks staff in Queen Mary Hospital and Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital for their assistance in this project. |
Description | Poster Session C: C-025 |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/205123 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.432 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Ho, RTH | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Cheung, KM | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, CLW | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Yip, PSF | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lo, PHY | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Luk, MY | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-20T01:27:34Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-20T01:27:34Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 34th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2013), San Francisco, CA., 20-23 March 2013. In Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2013, v. 45 n. 2 suppl., p. s197, abstract no. C-025 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0883-6612 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/205123 | - |
dc.description | Poster Session C: C-025 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Sleep disturbance is one of the common side effects experienced by cancer patients during treatment. Poor sleeping quality and sleepiness are not only affecting daily functioning of patients, it affects their immune system. In this study, we examined the sleeping quality of 156 Chinese breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy using the Chinese Pittsburg Sleep-Quality Index (C-PSQI), Participants were recruited from local hospital and community cancer support centers. Psychological distress was measured with Chinese Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Chinese Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). Morning saliva sample at awakening was also collected. Based on C-PSQI result, 65 % met or exceed the standard cut-off score for sleep problems (>5) and 51%reached the higher cut-off score (>=8). Participants with poor sleep quality also reported higher anxious and depressive emotions in the HADS(t=−5.22; p<.001) and higher stress level in PSS (t=−4.395; p<.001).Moreover, he mean awakening cortisol level of participants with better sleep quality is 9.68−6.25 nmol/l, while the participants with poor sleep quality mean awakening cortisol level is 8.57−4.69 nmol/l. Results suggest that poor sleep quality may relate to the psychological stress and negative emotions as well as Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis functioning. Acknowledgement: This study is supported by the Research Grants Council General Research Fund (HKU745110H) and Hong Kong Cancer Fund. We would like to thanks staff in Queen Mary Hospital and Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital for their assistance in this project. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/12160 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annals of Behavioral Medicine | en_US |
dc.rights | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com | - |
dc.subject | Medical sciences | - |
dc.title | Sleeping quality, negative emotions and the awakening cortisol level in female breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Ho, RTH: tinho@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Cheung, KM: irenech@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, CLW: cecichan@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Yip, PSF: sfpyip@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Luk, MY: myluk@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Ho, RTH=rp00497 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Chan, CLW=rp00579 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Yip, PSF=rp00596 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 240664 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 45 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 suppl. | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | s197 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | s197 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0883-6612 | - |