Depression And Anxiety Symptoms Following Cancer Diagnosis A Cross Sectional Study
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Depression and anxiety symptoms following cancer diagnosis a cross sectional study. The prevalence of depression and anxiety and its associated factors in cervical cancer are not well evaluated in china. It is common to feel sad or discouraged after a heart attack a cancer diagnosis or if you are trying to manage a chronic condition like pain. Depression is a real illness. In total 1053 patients with a confirmed cardiac diagnosis were included in the study with a participation rate of 96.
A cross sectional study article pdf available in psychology health medicine 21 5 1 9 december 2015 with 199 reads. Showed that about 50 of breast cancer affected patients had anxiety and depression in the 1st year and the rate dropped to 15 in 5th year while 45 of patients have anxiety or and depression within 3 months from diagnosis. All consecutive patients aged 18 or above were assessed before starting intravenous chemotherapy for the first time with the hospital anxiety and depression scale. Cardoso g 1 graca j 2 klut c 2 trancas b 2 papoila a 3.
We examined data from charts during a 6 year period 2012 2017. The aims of the present study were to assess demographic and clinical characteristics of patients after receiving a cancer diagnosis and to determine possible risk factors for anxiety and depression. Depression and anxiety symptoms following cancer diagnosis. To find the prevalence of anxiety and depression amongst cancer patients in a hospital setting.
Based on the cds and dass 42 54 met the criteria for severe depression cds 100 and 19 2 for severe to very severe anxiety dass anxiety 15 respectively. The hospital anxiety and depression scale cumulated data within a retrospective cross sectional study was used to estimate the prevalence of anxious and depressive symptoms that might reflect the presence of psychological distress. An observational study on breast cancer patients over 5 years by giese davis et al. This cross sectional study was conducted at the tertiary care hospitals shifa international hospital islamabad and nuclear medicine oncology and radiotherapy institute nori.
In our study 42 of mothers and 35 of fathers had anxiety disorder. Fotiadou et al. 1 a cedoc and mental health department nova medical school faculdade de ciências médicas universidade nova de lisboa lisboa portugal. Found that 68 of mothers and 37 of fathers of children with cancer were at risk for clinical symptoms of anxiety 21.