ArticleBioMed research international2019
Association of Synthetic House-Tree-Person Drawing Test and Depression in Cancer Patients.
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- Analysis of the screening and predicting characteristics of the house-tree-person drawing test for mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
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- FBANet: Transfer Learning for Depression Recognition Using a Feature-Enhanced Bi-Level Attention Network.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Trajectories of depressive symptoms in young and middle-aged men who have sex with men with new HIV-diagnosis: a 1-year prospective cohort study in Beijing, China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Effect of Perceived Stress, Family Companionship, and Mental Health on the Subjective Happiness of Chinese Healthcare Workers: A Mixed Research Method.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Tree Drawing Test in Evolution: An Explorative Longitudinal Study in Alzheimer's Disease.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasArticle
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence regarding the relationship between synthetic house-tree-person (S-HTP) drawing test and depression in cancer patients is limited. The aim of this study was to explore the applicability and validity of S-HTP drawing test in cancer patients suffering from depression.
methodsAs a population based cross-sectional study, 167 patients with cancer were enrolled in a hospital in China from December 2015 to December 2017. Self-edited general information questionnaire, self-rating depression scale (SDS), and the S-HTP drawing test were completed by all participants.
resultsThe average age of 167 selected participants was 52.92 ± 10.43 years old, and about 58.7% (98/167) of them were male. On SDS, depression rate was found in 34.1% (27/167) cancer patients. The logistic regression equation was established by using the depression drawing characteristics as the independent variables and the evaluation results from SDS as the dependent variable and 9 drawing characteristics employed in the regression equation (
conclusionsThere are interrater reliability and test-retest reliability between S-HTP drawing test and SDS. The S-HTP drawing test could help in screening depression in cancer patients.
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