SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2024
The prevalence of anxiety symptoms/disorders in cancer patients: a meta-analysis.
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- Psychometric evaluation of separate anxiety and depression item banks - potential supplements to the EORTC CAT Core.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- A machine learning approach to profiling anxiety risk among cancer patients on treatment.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Mental illness and health literacy in people with cancer: the Australian National Health Survey analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Determinants of quality of life among lung cancer patients: insights from a cross-sectional study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Prehabilitation for patients undergoing neoadjuvant treatment: results of a single-center pilot study using an integrative medicine day clinic.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of digital interventions for mental health in cancer patients and survivors.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Psychological adjustment differences in ovarian cancer patients receiving different treatment modalities and their clinical significance.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Proportion and Correlates of Psychiatric Morbidity Among Psychiatry-Assessed Oncology Inpatients.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Survivors of Oncological Disease: Experience and Satisfaction with National Health Care and Service.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of group music therapy on state-anxiety and well-being levels of oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy: a multi-center randomized clinical trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: Cancer can have negative effects on mental health. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of anxiety symptoms/disorders in cancer patients' worldwide using meta-analysis. Methods: The study population was cancer patients who had cancer at the time of the study. The outcome studied in this study was anxiety symptoms/disorders. PubMed and Scopus were searched based on the syntax of keywords, this search was limited to articles published in English until September 2021. For this meta-analysis, data on the prevalence of anxiety were first extracted for each of the eligible studies. The random-effects method was used for the pool of all studies. Subgroup analysis was performed based on sex, anxiety disorders, cancer site, and continents. Heterogeneity in the studies was also assessed. Result: After evaluating and screening the studies, eighty-four studies were included in the meta-analysis. Prevalence of anxiety symptoms/disorders in cancer patients showed that this prevalence is 23% ( Discussion: It showed a high prevalence of anxiety symptoms/disorders in cancer patients, in addition to therapeutic interventions for cancer, the necessary interventions should be made on the anxiety of these patients. Methodological limitation was the heterogeneity between the studies included in the meta-analysis. Some types of cancer sites could not be studied because the number of studies was small or the site of cancer was not identified.
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