Frequency of psychological distress in gynecologic cancer patients seen in a large urban medical center
| Autor: | C. Allen Stringer, Sandra Pitts, Cassandra Adams, Linda S. Hynan, Renee Phillips, Paula B. Miltenberger, Hannah F. Cassedy, Christy Tucker, Marian R. Zimmerman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Psychological distress Cancer General Medicine Disease Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale medicine.disease Mental health 03 medical and health sciences Distress 0302 clinical medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Psychiatric medication Gynecologic cancer Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business Psychiatry Original Research |
| Zdroj: | Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 31:161-164 |
| ISSN: | 1525-3252 0899-8280 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08998280.2018.1440857 |
| Popis: | Psychological distress in cancer is a well-documented phenomenon, but additional information is needed about demographic and disease correlates in diverse populations with different forms of cancer. This study focused on gynecologic cancers. Using the Distress Thermometer and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, this study examined distress levels in 94 women with gynecologic cancer who were being treated as outpatients at a large urban medical center. The distress levels in this sample were lower than in comparable studies, raising questions about openness to reporting distress. Those who reported higher levels of distress were more likely to also report a mental health diagnosis or psychiatric medication. This suggests that an alternate form for distress screening may involve inquiring about mental health treatment. In this sample, younger women and those with higher educational achievement or private health insurance had higher levels of distress. Conversely, there were no relations between distress levels and disease characteristics, indicating that, for example, women with early stage disease have just as much risk of distress as those with later-stage disease. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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