Research Article

Minority Breast Cancer Survivors: The Association between Race/Ethnicity, Objective Sleep Disturbances, and Physical and Psychological Symptoms

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of actigraphy parameters, physical and psychological symptoms of participants by race/ethnicity ( ).

VariablesMinimumMaximumMeanSDPopulation normalPercentage abnormal (white)Percentage abnormal (minority) value

TST234582380.862.64420ā€“540 [13]a63.3394.440.039*
SOL012225.5726.13<20 [13]a48.3361.110.714
SE569178.767.66>85 [13]a76.6783.330.301
WASO1114461.9728.11<42 [13]a83.3366.670.267
STAI207837.5511.45<32.2 [45]b56.6777.780.365
BPI08.752.542.28<7 [43]c5.0011.110.187
FSI094.031.89ā‰¤3 [41]d60.0038.890.922
CES-D05514.9410.41<16 [44]e36.6738.890.863

BPI: Brief Pain Inventory Short Form Severity Scale; CES-D: Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale; FSI: Fatigue Symptom Inventory Severity Scale; SE: sleep efficiency; SOL, sleep onset latency; STAI-S: State Trait Anxiety Inventory-State Scale only; TST: total sleep time; WASO: wake after sleep onset.
Data from the aAmerican Academy of Sleep Medicine [13]; bSpielberger et al. [45]; cCleeland [43]; dHann et al. [41]; eRadloff [44].
*Variable is significant at the 0.05 level.