title: Healthiness, fatigue, and symptom experience in women with and without breast cancer.
abstract: The article reports a study designed to test hypothesized relationships among healthiness, fatigue, and symptom experience derived from a holistic world view of health in women with and without breast cancer. Women with breast cancer did not differ significantly from healthy women on healthiness or fatigue or in the relationships among healthiness, fatigue, and symptom experience. Women with breast cancer had higher symptom experience scores than the healthy women, but when women with breast cancer who had completed treatment were compared with women without breast cancer, there were no significant differences in healthiness, fatigue, or symptom experience. Implications of the findings are interpreted in the framework of a holistic world view. Recommendations for further research are made.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Widener University Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Leddy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology* / Q000451:nursing; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016387:Women's Health