Impact of Personality Traits, Anxiety, Depression and Hopelessness Levels on Quality of Life in the Patients with Breast Cancer

Filiz İzci; Dauren Sarsanov; Zeynep İyigün Erdogan; Ahmet Serkan İlgün; Esra Çelebi; Gül Alço; Nazmiye Kocaman; Çetin Ordu; Alper Öztürk; Tomris Duymaz; Kezban Nur Pilavcı; Filiz Elbüken; Filiz Ağaçayak; Fatma Aktepe; Gizem Ünveren; Gözdem Özdem; Yeşim Eralp; Vahit Özmen

doi:10.5152/ejbh.2018.3724

Impact of Personality Traits, Anxiety, Depression and Hopelessness Levels on Quality of Life in the Patients with Breast Cancer

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Impact of Personality Traits, Anxiety, Depression and Hopelessness Levels on Quality of Life in the Patients with Breast Cancer

Eur J Breast Health 2018;14(2):105-111 DOI: 10.5152/ejbh.2018.3724

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Abstract

Objective:

The aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of personality traits, anxiety, depression and hopelessness levels on quality of life in the patients with breast cancer.

Materials and methods:

The study was performed on 90 patients diagnosed with breast cancer and 90 healthy women. Sociodemographic and Clinical Data Collection Form designed by us, Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Beck Anxiety Scale (BAS), Beck Depression Scale (BDS), Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and Quality of Life Scale–Short Form (SF-36) were administered to patients and to control group.

Results:

The patients with breast cancer were found to indicate higher levels of anxiety and depression, lower levels of quality of life, and higher scores of personality inventory subscales as compared to the healthy control group. In the patient group, it was identified that the quality of life subscale scores were found to be negatively correlated with anxiety, depression, hopelessness and neurotic personality scores; there was a positive correlation between neurotic personality scores and depression, anxiety and hopelessness scores.

Conclusions:

It can be concluded that the breast cancer patients with extraversion personality traits have lower levels of anxiety and depression, keeping their quality of life better, whereas the patients with higher neuroticism scores may have more impaired quality of life. Therefore, the psychiatric evaluation of the breast cancer patients during and after the treatment cannot be ruled out.

Keywords: Breast cancer, personality, anxiety, depression, quality of life