The status quo of return-to-work readiness of breast cancer patients and its influencing factors analysis

Objective To investigate the status quo of return-to-work readiness of breast cancer patients, and analyze its related influencing factors.

Methods One hundred and seventy patients with breast cancer were selected as research objects by convenience sampling method, and the patients were investigated using the general information questionnaire, return-to-work readiness scale, disease acceptance scale and perceptive social support scale.

Results Among 170 patients with breast cancer, 47 cases had returned to work, with a return rate of 27.65%.Among the patients who did not return to work, the intention dimension accounted for the highest proportion of 43.54%, and its score was (4.10±0.32) points, followed by the pre-intention dimension, accounting for 15.64%, and its score was (4.29±0.31) points.The active maintenance dimension accounted for 61.70% of the patients who returned to work, and its score was (3.69±0.31) points.The results of regression showed that the age, occupational nature, family support, outside family support, disease acceptance and regular exercise were the important influencing factors of return-to-work.The ROC curve was drawn, The AUC, sensitivity and specificity were 0.852, 74.5% and 84.6%, respectively, which indicated that the prediction model had high predictive value for return-to-work.

Conclusions In clinical nursing work, according to the characteristics of patients at different stages and characteristics, families and units should give relevant guidance and intervention to return-to-work, and develop targeted intervention programs to help patients return-to-work.