Anxiety, depression and coping strategies in post-hysterectomy Chinese women prior to discharge

2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
X.Q. Wang ◽  
C. E. Lambert ◽  
V. A. Lambert
Author(s):  
Margarida Gaspar de Matos ◽  
Aristides Ferreira ◽  
Gina Tomé ◽  
Ana Inês Borges ◽  
Dina Manso ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Jincy Jose ◽  
Blessy Antony ◽  
Usha Ukande

Across the world, there are people who suffer from different types of cancers. These patients suffer problems of anxiety and depression as the commonest psychological problems. Therefore, an exploratory study was conducted to assess the anxiety, depression and coping strategies in diagnosed cancer patients in selected hospital of Indore. Samples of 50 patients both males and females were taken for the study using non-probability purposive sampling technique. Assessment of data was done using standardized tools i.e. Hamilton's anxiety scale, Beck's Depression inventory and a set of 5 open ended questionnaire for the patients. Statistical findings revealed that there was no association between the level of anxiety and the socio demographic variables. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the cancer patients suffer from symptoms of anxiety (23 out of 50 patients, 46%) and depression (19 out of 50 patients, 38%) in their daily life. To adapt to these stressful conditions patients can use a wide range of diversional methods or coping strategies. In the study, it was found that patients used different coping strategies like watching television, engaged in spiritual activities and spending time with friends being the commonest methods.


Author(s):  
Maria Jocelyn B. Natividad ◽  
Khalid A Aljohani ◽  
Helen M. Gamboa

Background: A year after the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, the pandemic is still affecting healthcare systems with an increasing number of infected healthcare workers. Such a unique situation may often result in emotional turmoil, anxiety, depression, and fear, which could lead to resignation and burnout. The study intended to assess the feelings of nurses toward the COVID-19 outbreak; ascertain the factors that cause stress; and determine their coping strategies and factors contributing to coping. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was utilized to recruit 313 nurses working in the Ministry of Health (Saudi Arabia) hospitals that accommodate COVID-19 patients. The study instrument was adapted and modified from the ”MERS-CoV Staff Questionnaire” and the Brief COPE. Results: The results showed that female, married, those with a bachelor’s degree, and aged 25–34 years had higher significant coping strategies. On the other hand, Filipino nurses assigned in the Outpatient Department and COVID-19 Isolation Ward had more negative feelings and encountered several factors causing stress but were coping in a better way than others. Conclusion: Nurses’ commitment to their profession appears to be an intrinsic motivation to continue caring for COVID-19 patients despite the risk of infection. Comfort with religion, spiritual beliefs, and the presence of a support system were the coping strategies used by nurses to ameliorate the stress and negative feelings during the COVID-19 outbreak.


2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. 337-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin G. Piker ◽  
Gary P. Jacobson ◽  
Devin L. McCaslin ◽  
Sarah L. Grantham

Factors such as anxiety, depression, somatic awareness, autonomic symptoms, and differences in coping strategies are known to affect dizziness handicap. We studied these factors in 63 consecutive "dizzy" patients. This sample was subgrouped into normals and patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, compensated and uncompensated unilateral peripheral vestibular system impairment, or abnormal vestibular evoked myogenic potential as a single significant diagnostic finding. Results showed that (1) anxiety and depression occur with greater frequency in dizzy patients than in the normal population; (2) the magnitude of anxiety, depression, somatization, and autonomic symptoms does not differ significantly in subgroups of patients; (3) women tended to report greater handicap and somatic/autonomic symptoms; and (4) Dizziness Handicap Inventory total scores were correlated with patients' complaints of somatic/autonomic symptoms, anxiety, depression, and coping strategies. These findings suggest that self-reported measures represent unique pieces of information important for the management of dizzy patients. Factores tales como la ansiedad, la depresión, la conciencia somática, los síntomas autonómicos y las diferencias en las estrategias de afrontamiento, se sabe que afectan el impedimento por mareo. Estudiamos estos factores en 63 pacientes “mareados” consecutivos. Esta muestra fue sub-agrupada en pacientes normales, con vértigo posicional paroxístico benigno, con trastornos periféricos unilaterales, compensados y descompensados, del sistema vestibular, o con potenciales miogénicos vestibulares evocados anormales, como único hallazgo diagnóstico significativo. Los resultados mostraron que (1) la ansiedad y la depresión ocurrían con mayor frecuencia en pacientes mareados que en la población normal; (2) la magnitud de la ansiedad, la depresión, la somatización y los síntomas autonómicos no difería significativamente entre los sub-grupos de pacientes; (3) las mujeres tendieron a reportar un impedimento mayor y mayores síntomas somáticos/autonómicos; y (4) los puntajes totales del Inventario de Impedimento por Mareo correlacionaron con los quejas de los pacientes de síntomas somáticos/autonómicos, ansiedad, depresión, y estrategias de afrontamiento. Estos hallazgos sugieren que las mediciones auto-reportadas representan piezas singulares de información importante para el manejo de los pacientes mareados.


Author(s):  
Nicoline Normann ◽  
Marie Louise Reinholdt-Dunne ◽  
Martin Stolpe Andersen ◽  
Barbara Hoff Esbjørn

Abstract Background: Research suggests that the metacognitive model is applicable to clinical child populations. However, few measures related to the model are available for younger age groups. A key concept of the model is the cognitive attentional syndrome (CAS), which encompasses the individual’s worry and rumination, maladaptive coping strategies, and metacognitive beliefs. While the CAS has been successfully measured in adults, this has not yet been attempted in children. Aims: The aim of this study was to adapt a measure of the CAS for use with children and investigate the measure’s associations with anxiety, worry, depression and metacognitions. Methods: Our study included 127 children with anxiety disorders aged 7–13 years. The adult measure of CAS was adapted for use with children and administered at pre- and post-treatment. We examined the correlations between variables and the ability of the CAS measure to explain variance in anxious symptomatology, as well as the measure’s sensitivity to treatment change. Results: The adapted measure, CAS-1C, displayed strong associations with overall anxiety, depression, worry and metacognitions. The CAS-1C explained an additional small amount of variance in anxiety and worry symptoms after accounting for metacognitions, which may be due to the measure also assessing thinking styles and coping strategies. Furthermore, the measure displayed sensitivity to treatment change. Conclusions: The child measure of the CAS is a brief tool for collecting information on metacognitive beliefs and strategies that maintain psychopathology according to the metacognitive model, and it can be used to monitor treatment changes in these components.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Javier Rodríguez Árbol ◽  
Alberto Ruiz-Osta ◽  
Casandra Isabel Montoro Aguilar

The objective of the present study was to explore possible changes in the psychological wellbeing of young healthy students during the initial 14 days of the COVID-19 general lockdown that occurred in March of 2020, and if there was any relation with specific personality traits (neuroticism, psychoticism, and extraversion), cognitive styles (internal and external locus of control and intolerance of uncertainty), and coping strategies. One hundred twenty-two university students aged from 18 to 29 years participated in the study. The dispositional factors were assessed at the beginning of the study, while measures of psychological adjustment (anxiety, depression, and self-perceived health) were taken in three different assessment stages, employing validated questionnaires and scales. Anxiety and depression scores significantly increased after one week of lockdown, reaching a plateau pattern by the second week. The levels of self-perceived mental health, vitality, and quality of life showed a pattern of sustained progressive decrease, with a more acute lessening during the first week. Neuroticism, intolerance of uncertainty, and negative autofocus were associated to worse levels of psychological adjustment. These individual differences might be taken into consideration when designing prevention programs aiming to dampen the psychological impact of a general lockdown in healthy population.


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