Identificación del patrón de respuesta a la ansiedad en las supervivientes a corto plazo del cáncer de mama

Objectives

Anxiety appears frequently in short-term breast cancer survivors. There is no information, however, about the existence of a specific pattern of response in this group of patients.

Method

Ten breast cancer survivors whose time from the end of treatment was between 1 and 5 years and a control group from the general population, carried out the Inventory of Situations and Responses of Anxiety and a socio-demographic questionnaire designed ad hoc.

Results

Survivors group obtained higher scores than the control group in anxiety systems (cognitive, physiological and motor) but with no significant differences. In survivors group a particular pattern was observed in which there were no differences between the systems, while in the control group there were differences between cognitive-physiological and cognitive-motor systems but no differences were observed between physiological and motor systems.

Conclusions

In breast cancer survivors whose time from the end of treatment do not exceed 5 years, a particular anxiety response pattern is obtained with higher scores in physiological and motor anxiety.