Open AccessScreening of psychological distress in cancer patients during chemotherapy: A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Rohit Singh,
Harminder Singh,
Chiranjeev Jhajj Singh,
Kanwardeep Tiwana Kaur
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1075.164887
Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , informed consent , observational study , depression (economics) , distress , cancer , dass , population , quality of life (healthcare) , cross sectional study , clinical psychology , psychiatry , alternative medicine , nursing , pathology , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
The objective of this prospective, noninterventional, 8-months, observational study was to analyze and compare depression, anxiety, and stress (DAS) levels and their impacting factors in homogenous surviving cancer patients receiving chemotherapy as compared to normal control.