Linying Wang, Min Li, Hulin Liu, Jun Guo, Jingjing Han, Yanyan Gao
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Abstract
Objective
To investigate the correlation between mental health and symptom distress in breast cancer patients.
Methods
The clinical data of 110 female breast cancer patients at Shanxi Bethune Hospital from June 2017 to March 2018 were collected. The patients were assessed for symptomatic distress with depression self-rating scale (SDS). Functional assessment of cancer therapy-breast (FACT-B) and the functional assessment of chronic illness therapy-spiritual well-being (FACIT-SP) were used to make the mental assessment. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to analyze the effect of symptom distress on the mental health of the patients.
Results
The scores of symptom distress, mental health, FACT-B and FACIT-SP were (19.94±5.78), (50.68±10.64), (16.85±4.75), (33.83±8.33), respectively. Multivariate analysis showed that mental health score of the patients with symptom distress > 18 scores was reduced by 5.15 points (P=0.01) compared with the patients with symptom distress≤18 scores. Compared with the patients with annual household income < 50 000 yuan, the mental health score of patients with annual household income of 50 000-79 000 yuan was increased by 9.46 points (P < 0.01), and the mental health score of patients with annual family income ≥ 80 000 yuan was increased by 5.92 points (P < 0.01); compared with the patients in phase I, the mental health score of the patients in phaseⅡwas decreased by 2.62 points (P=0.02), and the mental health score of the patients in phase Ⅲ was decreased by 4.98 points (P < 0.01).
Conclusions
Symptom distress is an independent risk factor for affecting mental health of breast cancer patients. Solving symptom distress of patients can improve mental health status of the patients.
Key words:
Breast neoplasms; Mental health; Symptom distress
期刊介绍:
"Cancer Research and Clinic" is a series of magazines of the Chinese Medical Association under the supervision of the National Health Commission and sponsored by the Chinese Medical Association.
It mainly reflects scientific research results and academic trends in the field of malignant tumors. The main columns include monographs, guidelines and consensus, standards and norms, treatises, short treatises, survey reports, reviews, clinical pathology (case) discussions, case reports, etc. The readers are middle- and senior-level medical staff engaged in basic research and clinical work on malignant tumors.