Comparisons of emotional health by diagnosis among women with early stage gynecological cancers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess self-reported emotional health in a cohort of women with early stage gynecologic cancers and to explore differences based on primary cancer type.

Methods

We analyzed survey data from a cohort study of gynecological cancer patients treated at an academic cancer center. Measures of emotional health included cancer-related quality of life, distress, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and posttraumatic growth. Univariate and multivariate linear regression models examined differences in emotional health measures by primary cancer site. Potential confounders considered for inclusion in the final models were age, stage, education, income, partner status, treatment status, and race.

Results

242 patients with early stage disease comp

SUBMITTER: Messelt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902419 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature