Psychological Status during COVID-19 Pandemic on the Patients with Cancer
Middle East Journal of Cancer
; 13(4):648-656, 2022.
Article
in English
| EMBASE | ID: covidwho-2067589
ABSTRACT
Background:
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in December 2019 in China and exhibited as a highly contagious viral infection which led to a high level of mortality and morbidity. It is followed by a great deal of complications, such as serious psychological disorders. There are a few studies evaluating the psychological status of COVID-19 on the patients with cancer in Iran.Method:
This was a cross-sectional study carried out on 94 patients with cancer who referred to Haft-e-Tir hospital for radiotherapy and chemotherapy from 20 April to 15 may, 2020. The data collection tool was the impact of events scale-revised (IES-R).Results:
The prevalence of anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder based on past psychiatric history in the patients was 11.7% and 2.1%, respectively. The results revealed that age was significantly related to avoidance dimension score (B =-0. 209, 95% CI-0.084 to-0.335). Regarding hyper arousal dimension score, the results were as follows rural residency (B = 5.091, 95% CI 0.610 to 9.573), past psychiatric history (PPH) (B = 8.312, 95% CI 4.314 to 12.310), and radiotherapy (B =-2.976, 95% CI-5.878 to-0.074) had a statistically significant relationship with the hyper arousal dimension score.Conclusion:
The patients with cancer had a severe form of COVID-19. Individuals with cancer who had a previous psychiatric history are more vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after trauma.
adult; anxiety disorder; arousal; article; avoidance behavior; cancer patient; chemotherapy; controlled study; coronavirus disease 2019; cross-sectional study; female; human; Impact of Events Scale; major clinical study; male; malignant neoplasm; obsessive compulsive disorder; pandemic; posttraumatic stress disorder; prevalence; psychology; radiotherapy
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English
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Middle East Journal of Cancer
Year:
2022
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