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Psychological Distress and Drawing Tests among Women with Breast Cancer

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of the Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) as a screening tool for the breast cancer patients with psychological distress. METHODS: All of 64 patients with breast cancer participated in this study. Patients' depressive and anxiety symptoms w...

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Autores principales: Kim, Jiyeon, Youn, Soyoung, Choi, Byeongil, Jung, Kyung Hae, Ahn, Seung Do, Hwang, Sook Yeon, Chung, Seockhoon, Lee, Jaedam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5909107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29686600
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2018.33.e140
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of the Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) as a screening tool for the breast cancer patients with psychological distress. METHODS: All of 64 patients with breast cancer participated in this study. Patients' depressive and anxiety symptoms were assessed using Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) when the DDS was applied to the partipicants. RESULTS: Depressed patients used more enclosure in the Feeling drawings (P = 0.002) and tilt in Free drawings (P = 0.048). Patients with anxiety drew a picture over 67% of the paper (P = 0.015) in Tree drawing and more medium pressure (P = 0.049) in Feeling drawings. Thirty four subjects (77.3%) of unstable emotion group used over 67% of the space (P = 0.002). More Landscapes were observed in the Feeling drawings of unstable patients (P = 0.042). CONCLUSION: These results suggested that DDS could be used as a supplemental screening tool for psychological distress in breast cancer patients.