Introduction Screening questionnaires to assess psychological distress in cancer patients
are well-established, but in practice there are difficulties in implementation screening up to …

Background: Psychological problems are common in cancer patients. For the purpose of
planning psycho-oncological interventions and services tailored to the specific needs of …

Objective In routine oncological treatment settings, psychological distress, including mental
disorders, is overlooked in 30% to 50% of patients. High workload and a constant need to …

Recognition of psychological distress in patients with cancer, some of which can be
ameliorated with appropriate intervention, is a crucial aspect of patient care. Previous …

Aim To compare prevalence rates of mental disorders in patients with cancer and general
population controls. Method In two stratified nationally representative surveys, the 12-month …

Distress has been endorsed as the 6th Vital Sign by the International Psycho-Oncology
Society (IPOS) in 2009 with Screening for Distress as a proposed IPOS strategy in 2010. The …

Objective: Although several large distress studies have been conducted in outpatient
oncology treatment settings, there are few, if any, studies that describe the incidence of …

The psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression
Scale and its utility as a screening instrument for anxiety and depression in a non-psychiatric …

Objectives The Distress Thermometer (DT) is a validated and widely used screening tool to
identify clinically relevant distress in cancer patients. It is unclear, to which extend …

Patients diagnosed with cancer have many needs to relieve them of distress. The diagnosis
comes as a shock and maybe for the first time the individual is facing up to his or her …