Internalized stigma among cancer patients enrolled in a smoking cessation trial: The role of cancer type and associations with psychological distress.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Cancer patients who smoke may experience significant stigma due both to their disease, and negative attitudes and beliefs regarding smoking. We investigated whether internalized stigma differed between currently smoking cancer patients diagnosed with lung or head and neck cancers, other smoking related cancers, and non smoking-related cancers, and whether internalized stigma was associated with psychological distress.

Methods

This cross-sectional analysis used baseline data on 293 participants enrolled in a multi-site randomized smoking cessation intervention trial of patients with recently diagnosed cancer. Internalized stigma was assessed using five Internalized Shame items from the Social Impact of Disease Scale. Smoking-related cancers included lung, head and nec

SUBMITTER: Warner ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9238180 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature