Eric Vachon, PhD, R.N., explains how relationships can impact health outcomes for cancer survivors.
Transcript:
For this particular paper, we wanted to look at how relationship satisfaction agreement between breast cancer survivors and their partners were related to certain physical and psychosocial or mental outcomes for breast cancer survivors. So a couple of the examples were physical functioning, fatigue, depression and sleep disturbance. So we were really interested to see how the agreement within a relationship can have an impact on certain outcomes particular to the breast cancer survivors within the study.