Mental symptoms and its influencing factors of patients with malignant tumor undergoing chemotherapy in general hospital / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

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Objective:To estimate the mental symptoms in malignant tumor patients undergoing chemotherapy using DSM-5 cross cutting symptom measure.Methods:A total of 314 patients who undergoing chemotherapy in oncology department of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University who met all standards were chosen. The DSM-5 cross cutting symptom measure Level 1 Scale was used to assess the mental symptoms of the patients. SPSS 25.0 software was used for χ 2 test, Pearson correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. Results:The most common symptoms in the patients were depressive symptoms(85/314, 27.1%), somatic symptoms (79/314, 25.2%), manic symptoms (78/314, 24.5% ) and anxiety symptoms (76/314, 24.3%). The proportion of anxiety symptoms in malignant tumor patients who were taken care of by other personnel(26/64, 40.6%) was significantly higher than that in patients who were taken care of by immediate relatives(50/250, 20.0%)(χ 2=12.23, P<0.05). Patients with unstable working conditions were more likely to have depressive symptoms (χ 2=7.64, P<0.05). There was a significant negative correlation between the patients' understanding of the disease and their scores of depressive symptoms, somatic symptoms, manic symptoms, anxiety symptoms and the total score of mental symptoms( r= -0.26, -0.15, -0.12, -0.25, -0.22, all P<0.05). In addition, the total score of mental symptoms of malignant tumor patients was significantly positively correlated with family burden and family status( r=0.11, 0.11, both P<0.05), and negatively correlated with patients' education ( r=-0.13, P<0.05). Multiple regression analysis showed that the degree of understanding of the disease( β=-0.203) and family status( β=0.197) were the influencing factors of mental symptoms of inpatients malignant tumors undergoing chemotherapy in general hospital ( F=13.653, P<0.001). Conclusion:Malignant tumor patients undergoing chemotherapy may have a variety of mental symptoms. The high incidence mainly includes depressive symptoms, somatic symptoms, manic symptoms and anxiety symptoms. The understanding of the patients to the disease and family situation are the main influencing factors.