Pessimism predicts anxiety and depression in breast cancer survivors: A 5‐year follow‐up study

We investigated the prevalence of anxiety and depression at diagnosis and at 1, 3, and 5 years after breast cancer diagnosis. We hypothesized that a low level of optimism (pessimism) at diagnosis could predict change in anxiety and depression 5 years later.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Psycho-Oncology

• Publication date

  2019-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/pon.5084PMID 30950120
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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