Open AccessDepressive symptoms, mental health-related quality of life, and survival among older patients with multiple myeloma
Author(s) -
Ali Alobaidi,
Nadia A. Nabulsi,
Brian Talon,
Alemseged Ayele Asfaw,
Jifang Zhou,
Lisa K. Sharp,
Karen Sweiss,
Pritesh Patel,
Naomi Ko,
Brian C.H. Chiu,
Gregory S. Calip
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
supportive care in cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.133
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1433-7339
pISSN - 0941-4355
DOI - 10.1007/s00520-019-05246-6
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , depression (economics) , proportional hazards model , mental health , confidence interval , multiple myeloma , quality of life (healthcare) , cancer , cohort , cohort study , epidemiology , retrospective cohort study , psychiatry , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
To examine the impact of pre-diagnosis depressive symptoms and mental health-related quality of life (HRQOL) on survival among older patients with multiple myeloma (MM).