The Relationship Between Biopsychosocial Functioning and Work-Related Cognitive Limitation Among Employed Breast Cancer Survivors: Case Control Study.

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The proposed study seeks to evaluate the relationship between biopsychosocial functioning and work-related cognitive limitation among employed breast cancer survivors in a cross-sectional study with healthy control group. Specifically, this study will assess work-related cognitive limitation in association with depression, anxiety, pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and cognitive deficit of employed women with and without history of breast cancer. The primary purpose of this study is to assess the impact of objective cognitive functioning as a better predictor of cognitive shortcomings at work place in comparison to a self-report cognitive measure. The secondary purpose is to assess work related cognitive limitation in breast cancer survivors in comparison to their counterparts (employed women without history of cancer diagnosis). The third purpose is to explore how sociodemographic variables such as marital status, education, age, race, and ethnicity relates to perceived cognitive limitation at work among breast cancer survivors. Additionally, the study will examine the effects of medical variables as covariates on these relationships. Subsequently, the study will examine the level of mindful attention and awareness as a possible mediator between the psychological, somatic and cognitive distress and the work-related cognitive limitation. In this observational study, the control group is added as a mean to compare differences between groups and that no variables is being manipulated in this study. This precludes this research from being a quasi- or a true experimental design.

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