Evaluation of psychosocial aspects in participants of cancer genetic counseling

The instrument called “Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale” (HADS) is frequently used to evaluate anxious and depressive symptomatology in patients who receive Cancer Genetic Counseling (CGC). However, this instrument cannot identify all of the psychosocial factors, such as the antecedents of the patients’ emotional states or their concerns. The objective of the present research was to compare cases detected with psychosocial alterations by means of HADS and a Psychological Health Interview (PHI). A transversal analytical design was used. One hundred ten participants were included (97.3% females and 2.7% males). The average age was 45 years ±10 years. The PHI identified twice the amount of participants with psychosocial alterations than did HADS, which only detected 43% of these participants. The results of our study suggest that the PHI should be applied in addition to HADS to identify participants who would require psychological support due to recurrent concerns.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice

• Publication date

  2017-09-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/s13053-017-0073-xPMID 28943989PMCID 5607594
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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