Social support in the healthcare of women submitted to breast cancer treatment

• Published in: Women & health Vol. 60; no. 8; p. 899
• Main Authors: Sousa Rodrigues Guedes, Thais, Patrocínio da Silva Barros, Clécia, Dantas de Oliveira, Nayara Priscila, Martins Holanda, Ayrton, Albuquerque Reis, Mariane, Rocha E Silva, Barbara Layse, Barbosa Otoni Gonçalves Guedes, Marcello, Jerez-Roig, Javier, Bezerra de Souza, Dyego Leandro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 13.09.2020
• Subjects: Adult; Brazil - epidemiology; Breast Neoplasms - epidemiology; Breast Neoplasms - psychology; Breast Neoplasms - therapy; Delivery of Health Care - methods; Female; Health Care Surveys; Health Services - statistics & numerical data; Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Middle Aged; Prevalence; Social Support; Socioeconomic Factors; Brazil; social support; Breast cancer; oncology; survival; healthcare
• ISSN: 1541-0331
• DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2020.1767263

This study aimed to verify the prevalence of low social support (LSS) and associated factors in women submitted to breast cancer (BC) treatment. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 101 female residents of the municipality of Natal (Northeast Brazil), diagnosed with BC and submitted to oncological treatment. Data collection took place between July/2015 and May/2016 from medical records and individuals' interviews, and from the Descriptive, bivariate and multivariate statistics were carried out through Poisson's regression with robust variance and significance level 0.05. Prevalence of LSS in women with BC was 22.8% with confidence interval 14.6-39.94. Type of access to public services ( < .03), prevalence ratio (PR) 1.84 and negative self-rated health ( < .001), PR 4.47 were associated with LSS. These results were obtained after adjustments by the variables age and presence of chronic diseases. The associations established herein could have been mostly related to fragilities of the Brazilian health system, and can contribute to the planning of actions directed to the studied population.