Distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy

BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy for cancer is an intense and cyclic treatment associated with number of side-effects. The present study evaluated the effect of chemotherapy on distress, anxiety and depression. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 117 patients were evaluated by using distress inventory for canc...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Manoj, Sarita, Gangadharan P, Devi, Nandkumar, Thomas, Bejoy C, Hussain, Badridien M, Krishnan, Rita
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1592486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17002797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-68
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author Pandey, Manoj
Sarita, Gangadharan P
Devi, Nandkumar
Thomas, Bejoy C
Hussain, Badridien M
Krishnan, Rita
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Sarita, Gangadharan P
Devi, Nandkumar
Thomas, Bejoy C
Hussain, Badridien M
Krishnan, Rita
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description BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy for cancer is an intense and cyclic treatment associated with number of side-effects. The present study evaluated the effect of chemotherapy on distress, anxiety and depression. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 117 patients were evaluated by using distress inventory for cancer (DIC2) and hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS). Majority of the patients were taking chemotherapy for solid tumors (52; 44.4%). RESULTS: The mean distress score was 24, 18 (15.38%) were found to have anxiety while 19 (16.23%) had depression. High social status was the only factor found to influence distress while female gender was the only factor found to influence depression in the present study. CONCLUSION: The study highlights high psychological morbidity of cancer patients and influence of gender on depression. Construct of distress as evaluated by DIC 2 may have a possible overlap with anxiety.
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spelling pubmed-15924862006-10-07 Distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy Pandey, Manoj Sarita, Gangadharan P Devi, Nandkumar Thomas, Bejoy C Hussain, Badridien M Krishnan, Rita World J Surg Oncol Research BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy for cancer is an intense and cyclic treatment associated with number of side-effects. The present study evaluated the effect of chemotherapy on distress, anxiety and depression. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 117 patients were evaluated by using distress inventory for cancer (DIC2) and hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS). Majority of the patients were taking chemotherapy for solid tumors (52; 44.4%). RESULTS: The mean distress score was 24, 18 (15.38%) were found to have anxiety while 19 (16.23%) had depression. High social status was the only factor found to influence distress while female gender was the only factor found to influence depression in the present study. CONCLUSION: The study highlights high psychological morbidity of cancer patients and influence of gender on depression. Construct of distress as evaluated by DIC 2 may have a possible overlap with anxiety. BioMed Central 2006-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC1592486/ /pubmed/17002797 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-68 Text en Copyright © 2006 Pandey et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sarita, Gangadharan P
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Thomas, Bejoy C
Hussain, Badridien M
Krishnan, Rita
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title Distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
title_full Distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
title_fullStr Distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
title_full_unstemmed Distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
title_short Distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
title_sort distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1592486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17002797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-68
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