ArticleJournal of psychosocial oncology2022
Association of depressive symptomatology with problem alcohol use in rural head and neck cancer patients at diagnosis.
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- Alcohol-Related Risk, Depressive Symptoms, HRQoL, and Coping Phenotypes in Head-and-Neck Cancer: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study Stratified by Clinical Stage.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Observational
- A longitudinal analysis on alcohol consumption in patients with cancer undergoing psycho-oncological treatment.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Prevalence and persistence of depressive symptoms during the first year postdiagnosis in a large sample of patients with head and neck cancer.American journal of otolaryngologyObservational
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purposeProblem alcohol use is a risk factor for the development of head and neck cancer (HNC) and continued use is associated with poor outcomes; depressive symptoms may be associated with this behavior.
designExploratory cross-sectional study examined depressive symptoms as a correlate of self-reported problem alcohol use at diagnosis. SAMPLE/
methodsMultivariable linear regression examined depressive symptoms as a correlate of problem alcohol use in a sample of rural HNC patients (
findingsOver half (55.2%) of rural patients with potentially problem alcohol use exhibited mild to moderate depressive symptomatology. Regression models controlling for age, cancer site, stage, sex, tobacco use, and treatment modality indicated that depressive symptoms at diagnosis were associated with self-reported problem alcohol use scores at diagnosis (ß = .186, sr CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS: HNC patients should be screened for alcohol use and depression at diagnosis. Access to behavioral health treatment and/or referral options may be lacking in rural areas thus additional ways of connecting rural patients to specialty care should be explored. These may include telehealth and multimodal interventions to address complex behavioral health cases. Additional research in important patient subgroups such as older patients and those presenting with advanced disease is also warranted.
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