Understanding the Functionality of Depression Among Australian Breast Cancer Patients: Implications for Cognitive and Behavioural Interventions

Abstract

These findings support the application of a functional analytic model of depression within CBT assessment and treatment procedures with BCa patients.

Psychosocial Predictors of Quality of Life in Hematological Cancer

“…These results show depression's relevance and its potential role in reducing QOL, and are consistent with the emotional impact cancer and its treatment produce. [36][37] Several studies show how depression affects patients' functioning during the course of the disease, 39 in addition to interfering with adhesion to medical recommendations. 40 The experience of negative emotions derived from the disease is associated with worse mental health.…”

Editorial for International Journal of Behavioral Medicine: Special Issue on Cancer

“…These include two studies [4,5] of psychosocial factors underlying cancer screening (secondary prevention) behaviors, three papers focused on tertiary prevention issues in diagnosed patients [6][7][8], and one paper [9] focused on multiple prevention issues in families dealing with cancer.…”

“…Despite this we still know very little about individual difference factors that predict its onset in the period between cancer diagnosis and the completion of curative and initial adjuvant therapies. The paper by Sharpely and colleagues [6] attempts to identify antecedents of depression using the Zung self-rating depression scale (SDS) in 253 Australian women recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The authors hypothesize that different forms of perceived punishmentcomponent 1, loss of personal or social reinforcement resources and behavioral, and component 2, emotional and cognitive reactions to these losses-constitute the phenomenology of depression in recently diagnosed breast cancer patients.…”