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Type D personality is associated with delaying patients to medical assessment and poor quality of life among rectal cancer survivors
- Source :
- International journal of colorectal disease. 31(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The aim of this research was to explore quality of life (QoL), mental health status, type D personality, symptom duration, and emergency admissions of Chinese rectal cancer patients as well as the relationship between these factors. Type D personality was measured with the 14-item Type D Personality Scale (DS14). Mental health status was measured with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The QoL outcomes were assessed longitudinally using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30 and QLQ-CR38 questionnaires at the baseline and 6 months after diagnosis. Of the 852 survivors who responded (94 %), 187 (22 %) had a type D personality. The proportion of patients with duration of symptoms >1 month and being diagnosed after emergency admissions in type D group is significantly higher than that in non-type D group. At both of the time points, type D patients reported statistically significant lower scores on most of the functional scales, global health status/QoL scales, and worse symptom scores compared to patients without a type D personality. At the 6-month time point, a higher percentage of patients in the type D group demonstrated QoL deterioration. Clinically elevated levels of anxiety and depression were more prevalent in type D than in non-type D survivors. Type D personality was associated with poor QoL and mental health status among survivors of rectal cancer, even after adjustment for confounding background variables. Type D personality might be a general vulnerability factor to screen for subgroups at risk for longer symptom duration and emergency admissions in clinical practice.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Colorectal cancer
Anxiety
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
03 medical and health sciences
Type D Personality
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life
Internal medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Longitudinal Studies
Survivors
Psychiatry
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Aged
Demography
Aged, 80 and over
business.industry
Depression
Rectal Neoplasms
Type D personality
Confounding
Gastroenterology
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Mental health
humanities
Mental Health
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Quality of Life
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14321262
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of colorectal disease
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....36a00474d8a071f627f04dd70586dfbb