Discussions of Life Expectancy Moderate Relationships between Prognosis and Anxiety or Depression in Men with Advanced Cancer | Zendy

Larry D. Cripe | Zendy; Susan M. Rawl | Zendy; Karen Schmidt | Zendy; Yan Tong | Zendy; Patrick O. Monahan | Zendy; Kevin L. Rand | Zendy

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Discussions of Life Expectancy Moderate Relationships between Prognosis and Anxiety or Depression in Men with Advanced Cancer

Author(s) -

Larry D. Cripe,

Susan M. Rawl,

Karen Schmidt,

Yan Tong,

Patrick O. Monahan,

Kevin L. Rand

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of palliative medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.986

H-Index - 90

eISSN - 1096-6218

pISSN - 1557-7740

DOI - 10.1089/jpm.2011.0249

Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , depression (economics) , hospital anxiety and depression scale , coping (psychology) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , cancer , economics , macroeconomics

Oncologists avoid prognostic discussions due to concerns about increasing patients' anxiety or depression. We sought to determine if perceived prognosis or extent of prognostic discussions predicted anxiety or depression and whether prognostic discussions moderated the relationship between prognosis and anxiety or depression.

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