Relationship Between Functional Performance, Kinesiophobia with Muscular Strength, Fatigue and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors Women
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https://doi.org/10.32635/2176-9745.RBC.2026v72n1.5385Keywords:
Breast Neoplasms, Physical Functional Performance, Quality of Life/psychology, Kinesiophobia/psychologyAbstract
Introduction: Breast cancer is the most prevalent neoplasm among women. Psychobiological aspects and muscle performance are affected during treatment of women cancer survivors. Objective: To correlate functional performance and kinesiophobia with muscle strength, fatigue and quality of life in breast cancer survivors women. Method: Cross-sectional quantitative study with 62 women – 32 breast cancer survivors assigned to the survivors group (SG) (age 52.93 ± 8.95) and 30 apparently healthy women to the control group (CG) (age: 52.16 ± 7.59). Functional performance was evaluated by DASH, kinesiophobia by the Tampa Scale, quality of life by EORTC BR-23, fatigue by FACT B+4, muscle strength by isometric test bilateral and one-repetition maximum test (1RM). Pearson's coefficient measured linear correlation of variables with normal distribution and the Spearman correlation, the relationship between the variables that did not present normal distribution. The significance level was p≤ 0.05. Results: The survivors group (SG) showed worse levels of functional performance (p<0.001), strength (p<0.001), 1RM (p=0.011) and higher levels of kinesiophobia than the control group (CG) (p=0.005). Strength showed a negative correlation with kinesiophobia (r=0.295; p=0.019) and functional performance (r=-0.351; p=0.005). Functional performance showed negative correlation with fatigue (r=-0.435; p=0.0004) and quality of life (r=-0.296; p=0.019). Conclusion: Breast cancer survivors women have low levels of functional performance, muscle strength and higher levels of kinesiophobia. The functional performance was negatively correlated with strength and psychobiological aspects. The kinesiophobia was negatively correlated with strength.
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