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Cancer Patients and Anxiety: A Gender Perspective

The complexity of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer means that it is often associated with anxiety symptoms. The aim of our study was to further our understanding of the oncological process and the presence of anxiety symptoms, from a gender perspective. A cross-sectional study was performed, ex...

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Autores principales: Parás-Bravo, Paula, Paz-Zulueta, María, Boixadera-Planas, Ester, Fradejas-Sastre, Víctor, Palacios-Ceña, Domingo, Fernández-de-las-Peñas, César, Alonso-Blanco, Cristina
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7175312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32085538
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041302
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author Parás-Bravo, Paula
Paz-Zulueta, María
Boixadera-Planas, Ester
Fradejas-Sastre, Víctor
Palacios-Ceña, Domingo
Fernández-de-las-Peñas, César
Alonso-Blanco, Cristina
author_facet Parás-Bravo, Paula
Paz-Zulueta, María
Boixadera-Planas, Ester
Fradejas-Sastre, Víctor
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description The complexity of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer means that it is often associated with anxiety symptoms. The aim of our study was to further our understanding of the oncological process and the presence of anxiety symptoms, from a gender perspective. A cross-sectional study was performed, examining 402 medical records obtained by simple random sampling of oncology patients at a hospital in northern Spain from July 2012 to July 2014. Data collection took place between February and May 2015. Psychiatric and sociodemographic variables were gathered, as well as pain variables and information regarding the oncological process. The data analysis included a descriptive univariate analysis and a bivariate analysis, and a logistic regression model was performed. Our results suggest that women with cancer suffer more anxiety symptoms than men with cancer. Women with anxiety symptoms represented 76.5% of all patients with anxiety. The OR of suffering anxiety symptoms between women and men was 2.43 (95% CI 1.05–5.63) (p = 0.04). A greater incidence of anxiety symptoms was found in patients with cancer pain and oncological treatment with biological therapy. Our results suggest that the gender perspective is necessary in the management of mental health in patients with cancer. Nonetheless, further studies are necessary to confirm our findings.
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spelling pubmed-71753122020-04-28 Cancer Patients and Anxiety: A Gender Perspective Parás-Bravo, Paula Paz-Zulueta, María Boixadera-Planas, Ester Fradejas-Sastre, Víctor Palacios-Ceña, Domingo Fernández-de-las-Peñas, César Alonso-Blanco, Cristina Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The complexity of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer means that it is often associated with anxiety symptoms. The aim of our study was to further our understanding of the oncological process and the presence of anxiety symptoms, from a gender perspective. A cross-sectional study was performed, examining 402 medical records obtained by simple random sampling of oncology patients at a hospital in northern Spain from July 2012 to July 2014. Data collection took place between February and May 2015. Psychiatric and sociodemographic variables were gathered, as well as pain variables and information regarding the oncological process. The data analysis included a descriptive univariate analysis and a bivariate analysis, and a logistic regression model was performed. Our results suggest that women with cancer suffer more anxiety symptoms than men with cancer. Women with anxiety symptoms represented 76.5% of all patients with anxiety. The OR of suffering anxiety symptoms between women and men was 2.43 (95% CI 1.05–5.63) (p = 0.04). A greater incidence of anxiety symptoms was found in patients with cancer pain and oncological treatment with biological therapy. Our results suggest that the gender perspective is necessary in the management of mental health in patients with cancer. Nonetheless, further studies are necessary to confirm our findings. MDPI 2020-02-18 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7175312/ /pubmed/32085538 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041302 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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