Kinesiophobia, physical activity levels and barriers of patients with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors compared to healthy controls

Alaca N., Türker Karayazı K., Cagrı D., Bektaş Karakuş M., Uras C.

47th European Society Of Congress of Lymphology, İstanbul, Türkiye, 30 Mayıs - 01 Haziran 2024, ss.88, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.88
  • Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Objectives: The aim of the present case-control study is to investigate kinesiophobia, physical activity levels and barriers to physical activity in women with breast cancer (BC) and breast cancer survivors (BC-S) compared with healthy controls (HC).

Background: Physical inactivity, which has a significant impact on quality of life, is one of the issues that should be investigated during and after breast cancer treatment. The most common and persistent barriers to physical activity during and after breast cancer treatment include pain, fatigue, bad mood, depression, anxiety, apathy and kinesiophobia.

Methods: The study included patients with BC (n=70) and BC-S (n=70) and HC (n=72). The primary outcome measures were physical activity levels, barriers to physical activity and kinesiophobia levels, and the secondary outcome measures were levels of anxiety and depression, fatigue and quality of life.

Results: The HC group had better physical activity levels, fatigue and quality of life scores than the other groups, but they had worse perceptions of physical activity, more individual, psychosocial and environmental barriers to physical activity compared to the other groups (p<0.05). The BC group had more barriers to exercise related to fear of overall body pain, poor balance, fear of falling and fear of feeling worse after exercise compared to the other groups (p<0.05). Subjects in the BC-S group, on the other hand, were more afraid that lymphedema might be exacerbated if they exercised (p<0.05).

Conclusions: The present study found that women with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors had worse scores for physical activity levels, fatigue, and quality of life compared to the healthy controls. Furthermore, all the groups were found have a variety of barriers to physical activity. Thus, we suggest that barriers to physical activity should be treated with a special emphasis in order to promote participation in physical activity.

Keywords: Breast Neoplasms, Healthy Volunteers, Kinesiophobia, Survivors 89 OP-052