Palliative Measurement of Anxiety in Young Women With Gynecologic Malignancy: A Review of Three Instruments

Q2 Social Sciences

Illness Crisis and Loss Pub Date : 2023-03-20 DOI:10.1177/10541373231163566

Alison E. Cress

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Palliative care involvement is common among patients with gynecologic cancers related to delayed diagnosis and symptom burden. Physical symptoms such as pain, nausea, and weakness can be managed with analgesics, antiemetics, nutrition, and physical therapy. Psychiatric side effects like anxiety disorders, however, are harder to capture. Associations among palliative care, anxiety assessment, and intervention in this population are not well studied. This could be related to lack of psychiatric-specific education in medical, nursing, and continuing palliative education programs. Palliative guidelines suggest systematically addressing psychiatric aspects of care in each patient encounter. Prior to intervention, providers must first properly assess anxiety. In this paper, development and validity of three instruments designed to measure clinical anxiety will be reviewed, including National Comprehensive Cancer Network Distress Thermometer, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Form Y1, and Beck Anxiety Inventory. Conclusions will be drawn regarding reliability and validity of each tool, and recommendations will be made based on respective psychometric properties.

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年轻女性妇科恶性肿瘤患者焦虑的姑息性测量:三种工具的综述

姑息治疗参与是常见的患者与妇科癌症的延迟诊断和症状负担。身体症状如疼痛、恶心和虚弱可以通过止痛剂、止吐剂、营养和物理治疗来控制。然而，像焦虑症这样的精神副作用则更难捕捉。在这一人群中，姑息治疗、焦虑评估和干预之间的关系尚未得到很好的研究。这可能与在医学、护理和持续姑息教育项目中缺乏精神病学专门教育有关。姑息治疗指南建议系统地处理每个病人遇到的精神病学方面的护理。在干预之前，提供者必须首先正确评估焦虑。本文将对三种临床焦虑测量工具的发展和有效性进行综述，包括国家综合癌症网络焦虑温度计、状态-特质焦虑量表Y1和贝克焦虑量表。将得出关于每个工具的信度和效度的结论，并根据各自的心理测量特性提出建议。

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