Screening for depression in palliative cancer patients attending a pain and symptom control clinic

Sela, Rami A.

doi:10.1017/s1478951507000375

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“…Although little empirical evidence relevant to this assumption is available, this shows that some nonsomatic items are endorsed by most patients receiving palliative care (Sela, 2007). This is not surprising because it is well documented that some nonsomatic symptoms (e.g., impaired cognition) may result from disease processes or be side effects of treatment commonly used in palliative care (Bruera et al, 1992;Kamboj et al, 2005).…”

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“…This research uses the broad coverage of nonsomatic symptoms provided by the GDS-30 to provide descriptive data about the way in which these symptoms are expressed in a palliative population. Although many previous studies have used multi-item scales with patients receiving palliative care, very few (Sela, 2007) have reported the frequency of specific symptoms of depression.…”

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The geriatric depression scale in palliative care

Crawford

Robinson

2008

Pall Supp Care

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Objective: This research examined the psychometric properties of previously published short forms of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) in patients receiving palliative care. It also uses the full form of the GDS to examine the prevalence of nonsomatic symptoms of depression in palliative patients.Method: Participants were 84 patients with advanced cancer attending palliative care outpatient clinics. Scores for short forms of the GDS were derived from administering the original 30-item scale. Patients also completed the single item numerical analogue scale for depression from the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System and parallel numerical analogue scales for will-to-live and hope. A subset of the sample completed the measures twice. Short forms were judged on the extent to which they captured information gained from the full scale and their internal consistency, test -retest reliability, convergent and concurrent validity, and their distribution of scores.Results: Overall, five short forms showed good psychometric properties at both visits. Two of these forms were very brief. Some nonsomatic symptoms assessed on the full GDS were reported with high frequency. However, few individuals reported a large number of symptoms. At both visits, patients identified as likely to have severe depression gave different responses from other patients on most items on the GDS-30.Significance of results: Several short forms of the GDS may be appropriate for use in palliative care. Patients identified as likely to have severe depression showed many of the same symptoms that characterise depression in other geriatric populations.

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The geriatric depression scale in palliative care

Crawford

Robinson

2008

Pall Supp Care

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“…2007 43 Haggman et al 2004 44 Nakaigawa et al 1995 45 Wulsin et al 1988 46 Turner et al 1984 47 Choi et al 2014 48 Articles that compare the Beck depression scale with other scales for assessment of depression in patients with known chronic pain Articles that use the Geriatric Depression Scale in known chronic pain Karp et al 2008 71 Articles that use the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale in known chronic pain Sarda et al 2008 72 Articles that compare the Zung Self-rating scale and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale in known chronic pain Taylor et al 2005 73 Articles that use the Depression, Anxiety and Positive Outlook Scale in known chronic pain…”

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Depression and pain: the need for a new screening tool

Cocksedge¹,

Shankar²,

Simon³

2016

Prog Neurol Psychiatry

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There is a strong association between pain and depression, and the presence of pain negatively affects the recognition and treatment of depression. Here, Dr Cocksedge and colleagues' explore the neurobiology behind this relationship and propose a new screening tool to assess patients with either condition for the coexistence of the other, with the potential for significantly better diagnosis, referral and hence treatment.Depression and pain z Review

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“…Prevalence of adjustment disorders in patients with malignant tumors varies quite widely -from 20 to 100%, depending on the methodological and diagnostic approaches used by different researchers [56][57][58][59][60][61][62] . Analysis of works devoted to adjustment disorders in patients with BD is complicated by the fact that some of them have been performed on small samples and even individual casuistic observations, and some of them were based solely on psychometric techniques.…”

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Psychohematology. Attempt to Summarise

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Olexenko

Savchenko

2016

International Journal of Hematology Research

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AIM:This article describes studies involving mental and personality disorders in patients with blood diseases -disorders typology, prevalence, risk factors for developing of mental disturbances and their treatment. METHODS:The work is done on the basis of scientific literature search in various databases and analysis of the resulting material. RESULTS: There was obtained information on the prevalence, typologies, risk factors and treatment of blood diseases in the available literature. CONCLUSIONS: The presented data of literature suggests clinical heterogeneity and a wide range (from asthenic reactions to delirious states) of psychopathological disorders detected in blood diseases patients. The main risk factors are severe underlying disease, chemotherapy management (especially corticosteroids), elderly patients. In most cases of adjustment disorders there was observed a combination of several risk factors (both general and specific). In the context of the tolerability and safety of pharmacotherapy preference was given to atypical antipsychotics and new generations of antidepressants (SSRI, SNRI). It remains to study the mental disorders and personality disorders, which are formed in patients with specific malignant and nonmalignant (hemophilia, thrombocytopathy etc.) diseases and to develop differentiated approaches to pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy in such states.

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Screening for depression in palliative cancer patients attending a pain and symptom control clinic

Abstract: The results of the study underline the importance of routine screening to detect depressive disorder in palliative care patients to improve their quality of care. The depression visual analogue scale was found to be an effective simple screening tool, easy to administer and use.

Cited by 17 publications

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The geriatric depression scale in palliative care

The geriatric depression scale in palliative care

Depression and pain: the need for a new screening tool

Psychohematology. Attempt to Summarise

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