Relationship between psychological status and compliance in a sample of patients treated for cancer of the head and neck

Pretreatment factors predicting quality of life after treatment for head and neck cancer

“…47 In the literature, this is supposed to be the main cause of psychosocial morbidity in these patients. 12,13,21,46,[48][49][50] However, there are some arguments against this hypothesis. In our study, patients had more physical symptoms after treatment, whereas their emotional functioning improved significantly and depressive symptoms tended to decrease, as was found in other studies.…”

“…3 Depression and other psychosocial morbidity occur frequently in head and neck cancer patients both before and after treatment. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Although QOL is severely jeopardized after treatment for head and neck cancer, the factors determining QOL after treatment have not been extensively studied. Explanation of patientrelated and disease-related factors may help health-care workers to identify patients at risk for somatic and psychosocial problems after treatment and to plan appropriate rehabilitation programs.…”

Comparison of Psychosocial Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving a Coping Strategies Intervention and Control Subjects Receiving No Intervention

“…Psychiatrie morbidity has been extensively assessed among head and neck cancer patients; with numerous studies finding high levels of mental distress and morbidity in this population Harnrnerlid et al, 1999a;McDonough et al, 1996).…”

A prospective multicentre study in Sweden and Norway of mental distress and psychiatric morbidity in head and neck cancer patients

“…Head and neck cancer patients' psychiatric morbidity has been studied in cross-sectional studies (Morton et al, 1984;Espie et al, 1989;Rapoport et al, 1993;Bjordal and Kaasa, 1995;McDonough et al, 1996) and prospectively (Davies et al, 1986;Baile et al, 1992;Hammerlid et al, 1997aHammerlid et al, , 1997b. The level of mental distress among these patients corresponds with those found for other cancer locations.…”

“…The level of mental distress among these patients corresponds with those found for other cancer locations. The determining risk factors for development of psychiatric morbidity among head and neck cancer patients have been suggested to include tumour stage, performance status, lack of social support and low social functioning, co-morbidity, previous psychiatric disease, pain and malnutrition (Shapiro and Kornfeld, 1987;Westin et al, 1988;Baile et al, 1992;Bjordal and Kaasa, 1995;McDonough et al, 1996;McQuellon and Hurt, 1997), but no single consistently strong risk factor has yet been found.…”