ArticleCancers2021
Quality of Life in Brain Tumor Patients and Their Relatives Heavily Depends on Social Support Factors during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Cognitive Function in Patients With Cancer: A Systematic Literature Review.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2024Pooled it
- The impact of COVID-19 on clinical outcomes in people undergoing neurosurgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Community-level social capital and postoperative outcomes following intracranial tumor surgery: an exploration of the Social Capital Atlas in neurosurgical oncology.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2025Article
- Investigating the relationships between social support and hospital anxiety- depression with quality of life in geriatric cancer outpatients under oncology treatments.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Feasibility and acceptability of an online psychological group intervention for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation inpatients.HemaSphere · 2025Article
- Postsurgical motor function and processing speed as predictors of quality of life in patients with chronic-phase glioblastoma.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Article
- Critical Issues for Patients and Caregivers in Neuro-Oncology during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What We Have Learnt from an Observational Study.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Observational
- The relationship between social determinants of health and neurocognitive and mood-related symptoms in the primary brain tumor population: A systematic review.Neuro-oncology practice · 2024Review
- Unexpected changes and associated factors of care burden among caregivers of cancer patients one year after COVID-19 outbreak.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Psychosocial factors influencing quality of life in patients with primary brain tumors in Pakistan: an analytical cross-sectional study.BMC research notes · 2023Article
- Quality of Life vs. Supportive Care Needs for Oral Cancer Caregivers: Are They Related?Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Article
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- The psychological impact of the covid-19 pandemic on radiotherapy cancer patients.Translational oncology · 2022Article
- Depression Associated with Caregiver Quality of Life in Post-COVID-19 Patients in Two Regions of Peru.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Long-term impact of adult WHO grade II or III gliomas on health-related quality of life: A systematic review.Neuro-oncology practice · 2022Review
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and restrictions on everyday life worldwide. This may be especially challenging for brain tumor patients given increased vulnerability due to their pre-existing condition. Here, we aimed to investigate the quality of life (QoL) in brain tumor patients and relatives in this setting. Over twelve weeks during the first wave of the pandemic (04-07/2020), brain tumor patients and their families from two large German tertiary care centers were asked to complete weekly questionnaires for anxiety, depression, distress, and well-being. Information regarding social support and living conditions was also collected. One hundred participants (63 patients, 37 relatives) completed 729 questionnaires over the course of the study. Compared to relatives, patients showed more depressive symptoms (
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