title: Life satisfaction of women of working age shortly after breast cancer surgery.
abstract: To explore, among women of working age, satisfaction with life as a whole and with different life domains, and its associations with social and health variables, shortly after breast cancer surgery.
  
  
  
  This cross-sectional study included 605 women, aged 20-63 years, who had had breast cancer surgery with no distant metastasis, pre-surgical chemotherapy, or previous breast cancer. Associations between LiSat-11 and demographic and social factors as well as health- and treatment-related variables were analysed by multivariable logistic regression.
  
  
  
  Compared with Swedish reference levels, the women were, after breast cancer surgery, less satisfied with life, particularly sexual life. Women working shortly after breast cancer surgery were more often satisfied with life in provision domains compared with the reference population. Although most included variables showed associations with satisfaction, after adjustment for all significantly associated variables, only six variables-having children, being in work, having emotional and informational social support, and having good physical and emotional functioning-were positively associated with satisfaction with life as a whole. The odds ratios for satisfaction were higher in most life domains if the woman had social support and good emotional and cognitive functioning.
  
  
  
  One month after breast cancer surgery, satisfaction with different life domains was associated primarily with social support and health-related functioning. However, this soon after surgery, treatment-related variables showed no significant associations with life satisfaction. These results are useful for planning interventions to enhance e.g. social support and emotional as well as cognitive functioning.
authors.affiliation: Division of Social Work, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. mariann.olsson@ki.se.
authors.forename: Mariann
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3759-3981
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olsson
authors.affiliation: Division of Social Work, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.|Department of Social Work, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.|Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.affiliation: Division of Social Work, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.|Department of Social Work, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fugl-Meyer
authors.affiliation: Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lena-Marie
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Petersson
authors.affiliation: Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.|Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Agneta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wennman-Larsen
authors.affiliation: Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Linnea
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kjeldgård
authors.affiliation: Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alexanderson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011788:Quality of Life; D062707:Return to Work; D012944:Social Support; D013548:Sweden; D014932:Women's Health Services; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Breast cancer; Life satisfaction; Quality of life; Social support