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Intensity and Prevalence of Psychological Distress in Cancer Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study Using New Case-Finding Criteria for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

Psychological distress includes all negative subjective experiences elicited by a disease and its treatments. Since psychological distress in oncology is associated with negative outcomes, its detection and description are helpful for designing tailored supportive interventions. This study used the...

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Autores principales: Muzzatti, Barbara, Agostinelli, Giulia, Bomben, Francesca, Busato, Sara, Flaiban, Cristiana, Gipponi, Katiuscia Maria, Mariutti, Giulia, Mella, Sara, Piccinin, Marika, Annunziata, Maria Antonietta
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9087277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35558694
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875410
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author Muzzatti, Barbara
Agostinelli, Giulia
Bomben, Francesca
Busato, Sara
Flaiban, Cristiana
Gipponi, Katiuscia Maria
Mariutti, Giulia
Mella, Sara
Piccinin, Marika
Annunziata, Maria Antonietta
author_facet Muzzatti, Barbara
Agostinelli, Giulia
Bomben, Francesca
Busato, Sara
Flaiban, Cristiana
Gipponi, Katiuscia Maria
Mariutti, Giulia
Mella, Sara
Piccinin, Marika
Annunziata, Maria Antonietta
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description Psychological distress includes all negative subjective experiences elicited by a disease and its treatments. Since psychological distress in oncology is associated with negative outcomes, its detection and description are helpful for designing tailored supportive interventions. This study used the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to assess the intensity and prevalence of psychological distress (i.e., anxiety and depression) in cancer inpatients and examined the relationships between these variables and sociodemographic and clinical factors. An existing dataset of HADS results, from 2021 consecutive adult cancer inpatients at a single hospital, was analyzed. Only those questionnaires with complete responses were used. The intensity of anxiety and depression was determined from HADS sub-scores. The prevalence of anxiety and depression was calculated using, as case-finding criteria, cut-offs of ≥ 10 and ≥ 8, respectively. The mean HADS scores describing intensity were 7.3 for anxiety (n = 1,990) and 5.8 (n = 1,970) for depression. The prevalence rates for anxiety and depression were 26.6 and 28.6%, respectively. Among the 1,916 patients who completed both subscales, 17.2% had both anxiety and depression, 21.0% had either anxiety or depression, and 61.7% had neither. Gender, age, occupational status, and cancer diagnosis were associated with anxiety intensity or prevalence, while age, occupational status, and cancer diagnosis were associated with depression intensity or prevalence. Anxiety intensity was affected by the interaction effect between gender and diagnosis. Our study showed anxiety and depression being distinct entities, with more intense anxiety overall. From a research perspective, it reaffirms the usefulness for assessing both intensity and prevalence concurrently to gain a more detailed description of anxiety and depression.
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spelling pubmed-90872772022-05-11 Intensity and Prevalence of Psychological Distress in Cancer Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study Using New Case-Finding Criteria for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Muzzatti, Barbara Agostinelli, Giulia Bomben, Francesca Busato, Sara Flaiban, Cristiana Gipponi, Katiuscia Maria Mariutti, Giulia Mella, Sara Piccinin, Marika Annunziata, Maria Antonietta Front Psychol Psychology Psychological distress includes all negative subjective experiences elicited by a disease and its treatments. Since psychological distress in oncology is associated with negative outcomes, its detection and description are helpful for designing tailored supportive interventions. This study used the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to assess the intensity and prevalence of psychological distress (i.e., anxiety and depression) in cancer inpatients and examined the relationships between these variables and sociodemographic and clinical factors. An existing dataset of HADS results, from 2021 consecutive adult cancer inpatients at a single hospital, was analyzed. Only those questionnaires with complete responses were used. The intensity of anxiety and depression was determined from HADS sub-scores. The prevalence of anxiety and depression was calculated using, as case-finding criteria, cut-offs of ≥ 10 and ≥ 8, respectively. The mean HADS scores describing intensity were 7.3 for anxiety (n = 1,990) and 5.8 (n = 1,970) for depression. The prevalence rates for anxiety and depression were 26.6 and 28.6%, respectively. Among the 1,916 patients who completed both subscales, 17.2% had both anxiety and depression, 21.0% had either anxiety or depression, and 61.7% had neither. Gender, age, occupational status, and cancer diagnosis were associated with anxiety intensity or prevalence, while age, occupational status, and cancer diagnosis were associated with depression intensity or prevalence. Anxiety intensity was affected by the interaction effect between gender and diagnosis. Our study showed anxiety and depression being distinct entities, with more intense anxiety overall. From a research perspective, it reaffirms the usefulness for assessing both intensity and prevalence concurrently to gain a more detailed description of anxiety and depression. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9087277/ /pubmed/35558694 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875410 Text en Copyright © 2022 Muzzatti, Agostinelli, Bomben, Busato, Flaiban, Gipponi, Mariutti, Mella, Piccinin and Annunziata. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Muzzatti, Barbara
Agostinelli, Giulia
Bomben, Francesca
Busato, Sara
Flaiban, Cristiana
Gipponi, Katiuscia Maria
Mariutti, Giulia
Mella, Sara
Piccinin, Marika
Annunziata, Maria Antonietta
Intensity and Prevalence of Psychological Distress in Cancer Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study Using New Case-Finding Criteria for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
title Intensity and Prevalence of Psychological Distress in Cancer Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study Using New Case-Finding Criteria for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
title_full Intensity and Prevalence of Psychological Distress in Cancer Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study Using New Case-Finding Criteria for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
title_fullStr Intensity and Prevalence of Psychological Distress in Cancer Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study Using New Case-Finding Criteria for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
title_full_unstemmed Intensity and Prevalence of Psychological Distress in Cancer Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study Using New Case-Finding Criteria for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
title_short Intensity and Prevalence of Psychological Distress in Cancer Inpatients: Cross-Sectional Study Using New Case-Finding Criteria for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
title_sort intensity and prevalence of psychological distress in cancer inpatients: cross-sectional study using new case-finding criteria for the hospital anxiety and depression scale
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9087277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35558694
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875410
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