Patients’ decision-making regarding breast cancer surgery (Version 1)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Comparing decision making processes in breast cancer patients aged 25-45 years and 46-65 years who are undergoing breast cancer surgery.
IRAS ID
182120
Contact name
Kim Dent-Brown
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 1 months, 1 days
Research summary
The study aims to compare the decision-making processes of breast cancer patients aged 25-45 years and 46-65 years who are undergoing breast cancer surgery. There are two aims of the study. The first aim of the study is to examine whether there is a significant difference in the type of surgery (breast-conserving or mastectomy) chosen by younger and older breast cancer patients. The second aim of the study is to examine whether younger women have more body image concerns regarding breast cancer surgery and older women have more health-related concerns. Furthermore, do these concerns influence type of surgery chosen? There will be two groups of participants. There will be a younger age group (25-45 years) and an older age group (46-65 years), with 30 participants in each age group. Both groups of participants will complete the Measure of Body Apperception questionnaire, to assess body image concerns. They will complete the Fear of Progression questionnaire-Short Version (FoP-Q-SF) to assess health-related concerns. In addition, they will also complete a background information questionnaire which will include items assessing a number of additional demographic variables which may influence their decision-making process. Data analysis will be carried out to examine whether there is a significant difference in the choice of surgery in younger and older women. An independent samples t-test will be used to compare the means of scores of both the MBA and the FoP-Q-SF between the two groups of participants. An independent samples t-test will also be used to compare scores in the background information questionnaire data between the two groups of participants. Multiple linear regression analysis will be carried out to examine the effects of appearance-related or health-related concerns on women’s decisions when the additional variables measured in the background information questionnaire have been analysed.
REC name
North West - Greater Manchester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/NW/0621
Date of REC Opinion
31 Jul 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion