Pupillary response: cognitive effort for breast cancer survivors.
Support Care Cancer
; 27(3): 1121-1128, 2019 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-30097791
PURPOSE: The purpose of this cross-sectional comparative pilot study was to evaluate cognitive effort, indexed by pupillary response (PR), for breast cancer survivors (BCS) with complaints of cognitive dysfunction following chemotherapy. STUDY AIMS: Compare the cognitive effort employed by BCS to healthy controls (HC) during neuropsychological tests (NPT) for memory, sustained attention, verbal fluency, visuospatial ability, processing speed and executive function; and Investigate the relationship between PR-indexed cognitive effort and participants' self-report of cognitive function. METHODS: Self-report of cognitive function was collected from 23 BCS and 23 HC. PR was measured during NPT. Independent two-sample t tests or Wilcoxon rank sum tests were used to compare group scores. Between-group effect size (Cohen's d) was calculated for each outcome. Correlation between mean self-report scores and PR values, as well as 95% confidence intervals, was calculated. RESULTS: No group differences were demonstrated for NPT performance. BCS reported more issues with cognitive function than HC (p < .0001). A group effect for BCS was seen with PR-indexed cognitive effort for components of most NPT (p < .05). PR was correlated with most self-report measures of cognitive function (r = 0.33-0.45). CONCLUSIONS: PR sensitivity to cognitive effort across a variety of NPT and correlation with self-report of cognitive function was demonstrated. The portability, affordability, and "real-time" aspects of PR are attractive for potential use in the clinic setting to assess cognitive function. A larger study is needed to confirm these results. Prospective investigation of PR in BCS is needed to demonstrate sensitivity to cognitive function changes over time.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Pupila
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Cognición
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Disfunción Cognitiva
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Supervivientes de Cáncer
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Pruebas Neuropsicológicas
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Support Care Cancer
Asunto de la revista:
NEOPLASIAS
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Pais de publicación:
Alemania