Factors Affecting Sleep Quality of Breast Cancer Patients Treated With Chemotherapy: Literature Review
Background: Breast cancer is one of the causes of female mortality. The standard treatment for breast cancer is chemotherapy, which unfortunately has some side effects such as physical discomforts. This often causes breast cancer patients to suffer from sleep disorders or sleep difficulties. Sleep disorders may stem from internal or external factors and it affects patients’ sleep quality. If sleep disorders occur in a long time, it will affect the overall quality of life of the patient. Aim: This study aims to summarize various research results that focus on factors affecting sleep quality of breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy. Materials and Methods: The present study employs a literature review method, using JBI critical appraisal tools to review the selected articles. Searching strategy: To find relevant literature to be reviewed, journal databases such as Science Direct, Google Scholar and PubMed were used. The journal articles were searched using a prism flowchart guideline. Results: There are internal and external factors that affect sleep quality. Internal factors include pain when cancer invades, psychosocial disorder (depression, anxiety and stress), cancer stages and fatigue. Meanwhile, external factors that affect sleep quality include the medication process, both the chemotherapy and the prescribed drugs. Conclusion: Sleep quality of breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy is affected by internal and external factors. This literature review study is expected to help breast cancer patients to improve their sleep quality by paying attention to these factors.