《Assessment of the psychological distress difficulties in patients with cancer using the national comprehensive cancer network rapid screening measure》.pdfVIP

Chinese-German Journal of Clinical Oncology August 2012, Vol. 11, No. 8, P472–P477 DOI 10.1007/s10330-012-1020-y Assessment of the psychological distress difficulties in patients with cancer using the national comprehensive cancer network rapid screening measure 1 2 3 4 Hamid Saeedi Saedi , Mona Koochak Pour , Emad Sabahi , Soodabeh Shahidsales 1 Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Research Center, Gilan University of Medical Science, Gilan, Iran 2 Internal Medicine, Gilan University of Medical Sciences, Gilan, Iran 3 Department of Anesthesiology, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran 4 Cancer Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Received: 20 May 2012 / Revised: 20 June 2012 / Accepted: 25 July 2012 © Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 Abstract Objective: Clinical guidelines like National Comprehensive Cancer Network Disease recommend routine psy- chological distress screening as a common problem among patients with cancer. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of clinically significant emotional distress related to demographic and clinical association by standard distress thermometer (DT) within the patients lived in different regions of Gilan state, Iran. Methods: Participants (n = 256) completed the DT, rapid screening measure for distress and identified the presence or absence of 34 problems using the standardized checklist. Results: More than 59 percent of participants had more than 4 cut-off score for distress. The scores varied sig- nificantly in case of r