Coping and psychological distress among head and neck cancer patients

Elani, Hawazin W.

doi:10.1007/s00520-010-1013-8

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“…In a study on head and neck cancer, Kugaya, Akechi, Okamura, Mikami & Uchitomi (1999) used the Mental Adjustment to Cancer (MAC) scale to evaluate the coping strategies adopted by patients, and showed that a depressed mood was associated with the helplessness/hopelessness strategy (Grassi, Rosti, Lasalvia & Marangolo, 1993). Elani & Allison (2011), in a longitudinal study on head and neck cancer, compared patients according to their combined levels of anxiety and depression, to evaluate whether patients with low levels of psychological distress adopted different styles of coping. They found that higher levels of anxiety and depression were associated with "blamed self", "wishful thinking" and "avoidance" coping strategies.…”

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“…Although coping strategies can have an important impact on health status, to date only a few studies have investigated this issue in head and neck cancer patients, particularly in the context of NPC (Sherman et al, 2000;He & Liu, 2005;Elani & Allison, 2011;Airoldi et al, 2011). These studies focused on coping strategies and anxious/depressive symptomatology in different phases of treatment, but only a few explored how psychological distress may impact on quality of life and coping strategies (Lue et al, 2008;Elani & Allison, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These studies focused on coping strategies and anxious/depressive symptomatology in different phases of treatment, but only a few explored how psychological distress may impact on quality of life and coping strategies (Lue et al, 2008;Elani & Allison, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Psychological distress and coping in nasopharyngeal cancer: an explorative study in Western Europe

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Castelli

Riva

et al. 2016

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the head and neck cancer with the greatest impact on patients' quality of life. The aim of this explorative study is to investigate the psychological distress, coping strategies and quality of life of NPC patients in the post-treatment observation period.Twenty-one patients disease-free for at least two years were assessed with a medical and a psycho-oncological evaluation. Clinically relevant depressive symptoms (CRD) were present in 23.8% of patients and 33.3% reported clinically relevant anxiety symptoms (CRA).Patients with CRD and CRA showed a significantly higher score in the use of hopelessness/helplessness and anxious preoccupation coping strategies and a worse quality of life. Even in the post-treatment period, about a quarter of patients showed CRD and CRA.Results showed that patients with high anxiety or depressive symptoms seem to use dysfunctional coping strategies, such as hopelessness and anxious preoccupation, more than patients with lower levels of anxiety and depression. The use of these styles of coping thus seems to be associated to a higher presence of CRA or CRD symptomatology and to a worse quality of life.

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Psychological distress and coping in nasopharyngeal cancer: an explorative study in Western Europe

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“…5 Yapılan yurt içi ve yurt dışı ça-lışmalarda da baş-boyun kanseri tanısı alan hastaların çoğunluğunun erkek ve evli bireylerden oluşması ça-lışma ile benzerlik göstermektedir. 1,4,11,[20][21][22][23][24] Baş-boyun kanserli hastada, gerek hastalığı gerekse cerrahi tedaviye bağlı olarak oluşan görünüm bozukluğu ve fonksiyon kaybı hastayı fiziksel, psikolojik ve sosyal açıdan değişikliklerle karşı karşıya bırakmaktadır. Baş-boyun cerrahisinde uygulanan yöntemler hastanın solunum, konuşma, çiğneme, yutma gibi fizyolojik fonksiyonlarının yitirilmesine neden olur.…”

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“…27 Bu tür problemler, hastalarda iletişim kaybına, bireysel ve sosyal ilişkilerinin azalması sonucu ve toplumdan reddedilme korkusu nedeni ile yaşamdan memnuniyetin azalmasına neden olur. 20,25 Çalışmada, hastalara kanserin yaşamlarını etkileme durumları sorulduğunda, yaşamlarını kısmen etkilediğini ifade edenlerin oranı en yüksektir. Hastalar kanserin, en fazla fiziksel, sosyal aktiviteleri ve sözel iletişimi etkilediğini belirtmişlerdir.…”

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