Mental adjustment to cancer and its relation to anxiety, depression, HRQL and survival in patients with laryngeal cancer - A longitudinal study

Johansson, Mia; Rydén, Anna; Finizia, Caterina

doi:10.1186/1471-2407-11-283

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“…Finding of another study showed that the hopelessness coping response a negative determinant of perceived social support of patients (17). In Johansson's study (18) which was conducted on laryngeal cancer patients, helpless-hopeless and anxious reoccupation responses were associated with mood disorder and HRQoL. Also helpless/hopeless and anxious preoccupation responses that were significantly had a negative effect on well-being, irrespective of phase of illness.…”

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Studying the Relation between Mental Adjustment to Cancer and Health-Related Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

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Background: Health-related quality of life in cancer patients has been interested to researchers in the domain of health in recent decades. Mental adjustment to cancer is a concept known as an important indicator of life quality, well-being and health of cancer patients. The aim of this paper is to examine the relation between mental adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among some women with breast cancer. Methods: 100 patients were non-randomly selected from hospitals and oncology clinics in Kermanshah and Shiraz cities, Iran. These patients completed the functional assessment of cancer treatment-breast (FACT-B) in order to measure HRQoL and mini-mental adjustment to cancer questionnaire (Mini-MAC). Data were analyzed by using correlation and regression. Results:The results show that helplessness/hopelessness (58%), fighting spirit (40%), fatalism (33%) and preoccupation anxiety (18%) explain the variance of HRQoL. Conclusions: According to the findings, there is no relation between cognitive avoidance styles and HRQoL, and it can be concluded that coping styles helplessness/hopelessness and fighting spirit are the best predictors of HRQoL in patients with breast cancer. Consequently, the evaluation of the coping styles and emergency interventions in order to enhance coping with illness in cancer patients, decrease the sense of helplessness/hopelessness and anxiety are recommended, which in turn are accompanied by increasing HRQoL.

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Studying the Relation between Mental Adjustment to Cancer and Health-Related Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

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“…23 In another study done on 95 patients with Tis-T4 laryngeal cancer found that the most commonly used adjustment response at was fighting spirit and the use of adjustment responses was relatively stable overtime. 24 There is no significant difference between the two groups in their psychological wellbeing. 9±16.6).…”

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Ways of Coping and Psychological Well-Being in Cancer Patient: A Comparative Study Between Concealed and Unconcealed Patients

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Persons with cancer have to go through many painful conditions, face with new and challenging situations the illness brought to their life. Subsequently, all must cope with new stressors; in dealing with the changed situation (s) they might feel loss of control over their life events. Moreover, if the patients are involved in treatment process, it may add up more stress. However, at times, patients with advanced cancer also do desire information on risks and prognosis. Therefore, determining ways of coping with challenges in life posed by cancer and also comparing psychological wellbeing between patients who do not know (Concealed group) and who know about the diagnosis (Unconcealed group) will be helpful in developing a better treatment plans for cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODSA total of seventy six (76) cancer patients visiting Department of Radiotherapy, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal, during February 2014 to December 2014 were enrolled in this study. The total patients were divided into two groups of equal number i.e. 36 each for concealed and unconcealed groups and both the groups were administered the semi-structured questionnaire, Ways of Coping (Folkman S and Lazarus RS, 1985) and The Psychological Wellbeing Index (Dupuy, 1984) and the data were analysed using SPSS version 20.0. RESULTSComparison on the patients' ways of coping and also on psychological wellbeing schedule shows no significant difference between the two study groups i.e. concealed and unconcealed groups. Findings on ways of coping subscales are confronting (p=.340), distancing (p=.928), self-control (p=.808), seeking social support (p=.868), accepting responsibility (p=.692), escape-avoidance (p=.941), planful problem solving (p=.106), and positive reappraisal (p=.390), and relation between the two study groups on psychological wellbeing schedule subscales are anxiety (p=.513), depressed mood (p=.700), positive wellbeing (p=.429), self-control (p=.571), general health (p=.947), vitality (p=.877), and global score (p=.671).

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“…The reason why the psychospiritual variables controlled was that fighting spirit was most commonly used adjustment response, 15) and hope was related to decrease in depression 19) when people were suffering from loss and uncertainty.…”

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“…Through this study, we would provide useful data on the longitudinal effect of depression on prognosis in patients with stomach, colorectal, and breast cancer in Korea and on the importance of emotional intervention for those who are suffering from cancer-related depression. In addition, since psycho-social variables such as hope and fighting spirit contributed to decreasing depression and increasing survival in patients with cancer, 14,15) hope and fighting spirit were also included in the questionnaire to identify their confounding effects on the relationship between depressive symptoms and survival time. …”

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Association of Depression and Survival in Patients with Cancer over 10 Years

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Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the effects of depression on the survival of patients with cancer over a 10 year period. Methods: A retrospective review was conducted to examine survival of 218 patients with stomach, colorectal and breast cancer, who had been treated for cancer from 2002 to 2011. Depression was assessed by using the Symptom Check List-90 Revision in 2002, and hope, fighting spirit and other potential confounders were also measured to control for their effects on the association between depression and the survival time. Data on survival were collected from the Statistics Korea and also from medical record in 2011. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox proportional hazard regression model were used to examine if depression affected survival. Results: The total number of death was 106, and the non-survivors scored higher on depression than survivors. Depression was found to be one of the influencing factors on survival from cancer. Conclusion: Depression was significantly associated with the increased risk of death in cancer patients. Further research is needed to identify in details which type of emotional interventions can extend the survival time of cancer patients in depression. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Mental adjustment to cancer and its relation to anxiety, depression, HRQL and survival in patients with laryngeal cancer - A longitudinal study

Cited by 91 publications

References 55 publications

Studying the Relation between Mental Adjustment to Cancer and Health-Related Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

Studying the Relation between Mental Adjustment to Cancer and Health-Related Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

Ways of Coping and Psychological Well-Being in Cancer Patient: A Comparative Study Between Concealed and Unconcealed Patients

Association of Depression and Survival in Patients with Cancer over 10 Years

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