Adjustment of gynecological and breast cancer patients to the cancer diagnosis

Comparisons with males and females having other cancer sites

Bibliographic Data

ID15217146
AuthorsNancee V Sneed (Medical University of South Carolina, corresponding author), Barbara J Edlund (Medical University of South Carolina), Barbara Edlund, James K Dias (Medical University of South Carolina)
Year1992
Volume13
Issue1
Pages11-22
Publication date1992-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07399339209515974
PMID1556028
OpenAlexW2034963169
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited13

Newly diagnosed cancer patients (N = 133) were studied to determine gender-based differences in initial adjustment and whether, within the female population, women with gynecological or breast cancer adjust differently. The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and the Rand Health Insurance Study-General Well-Being Schedule (HIS-GWB) were used to measure anxiety, depression, hostility, somatization, and general psychological distress or psychological well-being. There were no gender differences on any of the measures when men were compared with women. However, when gynecological/breast cancer patients were analyzed separately from women with other forms of cancer, they were significantly less depressed, anxious, and hostile; they had less somatization, less psychological distress, and greater psychological well-being. These findings may be related to the perception of their illness as being less serious than that of other females with cancer

Breast cancer · Cancer · Gynecologic cancer · Gynecology · Obstetrics · Ovarian cancer · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Media Influence and Health · Medicine · Internal Medicine · Oncology

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