ArticleJournal of clinical psychology in medical settings2019
Reflections on a Health Psychology Service for Patients with Uveal Melanoma: The Challenge of Psychological Screening and Intervention When Distress is 'Normal'.
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- Predictors of emotional distress in uveal melanoma survivors: a systematic review.Eye (London, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Defining and Assessing Distress in Oncology Patients: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Foundations for a Personalized Psycho-Oncology: The State of the Art.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- 'I Don't Like Uncertainty, I Like to Know': How and why uveal melanoma patients consent to life expectancy prognostication.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- Future perspectives of uveal melanoma blood based biomarkers.British journal of cancer · 2022Review
- Prediction of all-cause mortality from 24 month trajectories in patient-reported psychological, clinical and quality of life outcomes in uveal melanoma patients.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Influence of Self-Practice Oriented Teaching plus Psychological Intervention on Blood Glucose Level and Psychological State in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Insulin Therapy.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- Two 11-Years Periods Statistics and Trends of Enucleation and Evisceration.The Journal of craniofacial surgeryArticle
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Abstract
We appraise the role of screening for distress as part of health psychology assessment of patients newly diagnosed with cancer. We reviewed records of consecutive patients who accepted a health psychologist's assessment over 4 years, examining convergence and divergence of the result of screening (whether patients reached threshold as 'cases') with the psychologist's clinical judgment of need for intervention. Of 261 patients, 88 (33.7%) were 'cases'. Of these, need for psychological intervention was identified in 70 (79.5%). Of the 173 (66.3%) 'non-cases', need was identified in 59 (34.1%). Examination of cases where the psychologist's judgment diverged from screening showed that 'caseness' can arise from distress that patients can manage themselves and, conversely, that psychological needs arise in the absence of overt distress. Formal screening may not identify need for psychological intervention. The psychologist's role is to make expert judgments of patients' current and future needs. Dialogue with patients should be the vehicle for assessment.
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