Mood Disorder in Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy During the COVID-19 Outbreak.
Front Psychol
; 12: 568839, 2021.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1170113
ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a devastating psychological impact on patients, especially patients with cancer. This work aims to evaluate mood disorders of cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy during COVID-19 in comparison with cancer patients who underwent radiation therapy in 2019. Materials andMethods:
We included all the patients undergoing radiation therapy at our department in two-time points (once a week for a month in May 2019) and during the COVID-19 outbreak (in April 2020). All the patients were asked to fulfill a validated questionnaire (STAI-Y1, State trait anxiety inventory scale), the Symptom Distress thermometer (SDT) (from 0 to 10 score), and the Beck Depression Inventory v.2 (BDI-2). We took into account the COVID-19 outbreak and also sex, age, week of radiation treatment, and disease.Results:
We included 458 patients (220 males and 238 females), with a median age of 64 years. STAI-Y1 median score was 40 (mean 41,3, range 19-79), whereas the median score of SDT was five and BDI-2 median score was 11. STAI-Y1, SDT, and BDI-2 were significantly correlated with the COVID-19 outbreak (p < 0,001 for all the tests), sex (p 0,016 for STAI-Y1, p < 0.001 for SDT, p0.013 for BDI-2), week of treatment (p 0.012 for STAI-Y1 and p 0.031 for SDT), and disease (p0.015 for STAI-Y1, p < 0.001 for SDT and p0.020 for BDI-2).Conclusions:
The prevalence of mood disorders in patients undergoing radiation therapy is higher than expected and even higher during the COVID-19 outbreak. These measurements could be useful as a baseline to start medical humanities programs to decrease these scores.
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Language:
English
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Front Psychol
Year:
2021
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Article
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Fpsyg.2021.568839
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