Detecting and managing psychological distress in women with cancer: an update of recent evidence

Mitchell, Alex J.

doi:10.1576/toag.13.1.22.27637

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“…Another strength of this study includes the validation of a multidomain screening tool that not only covers distress but also associated complications (e.g., depression) and subsequent impact (e.g., home). Indeed, relying on tools focused on a single domain may be too limiting (Mitchell, 2011a). Multidomain tools, such as the ET-BV are preferable, as they seem very promising (Mitchell, 2014) and show more accuracy in comparison to other established tools (e.g., DT; Mitchell et al, 2010a).…”

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“…Although several psychological assessment tools have been employed to assess distress in oncology contexts, most of them are considered too long for routine use, time-consuming, and difficult to score (Mitchell, 2011a). In this sense, visual-analogue instruments (see Questionnaire in Online Appendix for an example) are a suitable alternative, as they attempt to measure characteristics (e.g., distress) that cannot be directly measured easily.…”

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A Visual-Analogue Screening Tool for Assessing Mood and Quality of Daily Life Complications in Family Members of People Living With Cancer: Portuguese Version of the Emotion Thermometers: Burden Version

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Cancer is a disease that impacts not only the patient but also affects the entire family. Family members experience high levels of distress. Therefore, screening for cancer-specific distress among family members of people with cancer is important but relatively unexplored. This cross-sectional study aims to analyze the psychometric properties of a screening tool for family members of people with cancer. We examined the usefulness of the emotional thermometers burden version (ET-BV) in detecting caregiver emotional distress. The ET-BV is a simple multidomain visual analogue scale distributed in two major domains: “emotional upset” and “impact.” A total of 364 cancer patients’ family members completed the ET-BV and Brief Symptom Inventory. Analyses were aimed to examine the diagnostic accuracy (receiver operating characteristic) of the ET-BV. A fair to good diagnostic accuracy was achieved for ET-BV. For emotional upset thermometers, a cutoff of ≥5 was determined and for impact thermometers, a cutoff of ≥4 was established. ET-BV seems to be a useful, quick, and simple tool for distress screening in family members of people with cancer. A revision of a specific thermometer is discussed in order to increase ET screening performance and clinical utility.

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A Visual-Analogue Screening Tool for Assessing Mood and Quality of Daily Life Complications in Family Members of People Living With Cancer: Portuguese Version of the Emotion Thermometers: Burden Version

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“…Screening involves rapidly identifying the degree of risk presented by patients' psychosocial challenges and unmet psychosocial needs and ascertaining the degree to which help is desired (Mitchell, 2011). Screening should occur at the beginning of care and throughout treatment.…”

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From Distress Guidelines to Developing Models of Psychosocial Care: Current Best Practices

Clark

Bolte

Buzaglo

et al. 2012

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

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Psychological distress has been recognized as having a significant effect upon cognitive and emotional functioning, quality of life, and in some populations increased costs of care. Screening for distress and provision of psychosocial care in oncology treatment settings has been identified as a future accreditation standard by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC). Because there are few available models of programs of distress screening and referral to inform oncology social workers and other members of the psychosocial support team with planning their own programs, this article seeks to provide exemplars of best practices that are currently in place in four different settings where psychosocial support is provided to people living with cancer and their families. Each program will provide an overview of how it was successfully established and its contribution toward evolving evidence-informed best practices.

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“…Furthermore, unrecognized distress among cancer patients is expected to develop severe depression without appropriate therapeutic intervention, which may cause a relapse in the patient's psychological status and a failure in the appropriate response to cancer therapy. Hence, early psychosocial check and simple screening procedures could efficiently contribute to improving therapy outcomes among cancer patients [14][15][16].…”

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The efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients

Al-Shaaobi

Alahdal

et al. 2021

Libyan Journal of Medicine

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Psychological distress scale is highly recommended for cancer patients’ care. Several psychological scales have been implemented in cancer outpatient clinics. However, the use of the psychological distress scale, particularly distress thermometer (DT), in the inpatient has not been reported. In this study, we report the efficacy of DT in the determination of cancer inpatients’ supporting needs. A total of 170 inpatients diagnosed with cancer have been enrolled in this study. Only 132 patients matched the inclusion criteria, while other cases were excluded because of other diseases associated with cancer. The standardized problem list (PL) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were implemented in comparison with DT. Then, the cut-off score of DT was performed to identify clinically significant differences. The analysis of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve revealed that a DT cut-off score of 4 displayed 0.76 under the ROC curve. Sensitivity showed 0.86 sensitivity for cut-off score 4 and a specificity of 0.56 relative to the HADS cut-off score (≥15). DT scores were found independent of medical variables such as cancer type and stage, recurrence, or metastasis. Clinical ECOG-SP showed a significant association with the DT cut-off score (P ≤ 0.05). Regarding PL, patients with scores above DT cut-off were suffering 21 of 40 problems in all categories. Furthermore, patients that scored above the DT cut-off significantly showed an association with high support needs. DT scale showed significant performance in the evaluation of psychological distress among cancer inpatients through the efficient determination of their support needs.

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Detecting and managing psychological distress in women with cancer: an update of recent evidence

Cited by 6 publications

References 64 publications

A Visual-Analogue Screening Tool for Assessing Mood and Quality of Daily Life Complications in Family Members of People Living With Cancer: Portuguese Version of the Emotion Thermometers: Burden Version

A Visual-Analogue Screening Tool for Assessing Mood and Quality of Daily Life Complications in Family Members of People Living With Cancer: Portuguese Version of the Emotion Thermometers: Burden Version

From Distress Guidelines to Developing Models of Psychosocial Care: Current Best Practices

The efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients

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