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Chance of psychiatric morbidity amongst recently diagnosed cancer outpatients attending a chemotherapy unit
Provedor de dados: 56
Autores: Chaves,A.C.; Pinto,R.N.; Lourenço,M.T.; Mari,J.J.
The prevalent rate of psychiatry morbidity amongst patients with cancer reported in various studies ranges from 5 to 50%, a variation that can be attributed to differences in sample size, the disease itself and treatment factors. The objectives of the present study were to determine the frequency of psychiatric morbidity amongst recently diagnosed cancer outpatients and try to identify which factors might be related to further psychological distress. Two hundred and eleven (70.9%) female patients and 87 (29.1%) male patients from the chemotherapy unit of the Cancer Hospital A.C. Camargo (São Paulo) completed a questionnaire that featured data on demographic, medical and treatment details. The Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) was administered to the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Palavras-chave: Psychiatric morbidity; Cancer; Chemotherapy; Communication; Psychological distress.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2005000900018