ArticleInternational journal of behavioral medicine2024
COVID-19 or Cancer Stress? Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer.
Article in International journal of behavioral medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03199651 (Beating Lung Cancer in Ohio), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Beating Lung Cancer in Ohio (BLCIO) Protocol
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- An approach to COVID‑19 and oncology: From impact, staging and management to vaccine outcomes in cancer patients: A systematic review and meta‑analysis.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence and risk factors for anxiety in patients with early- and middle-stage lung cancer: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundOf all cancer patients, those with lung cancer are among the highest risk for infection, pneumonia, hospitalization, and early death from COVID-19. As cancer stress is ubiquitous, this exploratory study examines patients' COVID-19 stress and cancer stress in relation to their depressive and anxiety symptoms.
methodNewly diagnosed advanced lung cancer patients (N = 76) completed measures of cancer stress, COVID-19 illness perceptions and stress, and depressive and anxiety symptoms at a single monthly follow-up early in the pandemic (May 2020 to July 2020; Clinicaltrials.gov #NCT03199651). Hierarchical linear multiple regression analysis was used to identify the relationship of stressor variables to depressive and anxiety symptoms in this cross-sectional study.
resultsHierarchical linear models revealed cancer stress was a significant predictor of both depressive symptoms (F(14,30) = 5.327, p < 0.001, R
conclusionsAdvanced lung cancer patients during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic reported cancer stress as more important than COVID-19 stress in relation to their mental health. Empirically supported biobehavioral and cognitive behavioral treatments remain important to reducing psychological symptoms and enhancing patients' quality of life.
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