Somatic Distress, Mental Health and Psychological Resilience Among Cancer Patients During the Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eser Sağaltıcı ◽  
Özcan Sönmez ◽  
Ebru Karcı ◽  
Şengül Kocamer Şahin ◽  
Arzu Ertürk
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Somatic Distress ◽  
Stress Symptoms

Abstract Objective The current researches during COVID-19 have not yet addressed somatic distress among cancer patients. The aims of this study are to investigate the somatic distress and psychological symptoms levels of cancer patients, and analyze the influencing factors on somatic distress during the pandemic. Methods This cross-sectional study included consecutively selected 216 eligible cancer patients. The Patient Health Questionnaire-15, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist for DSM-5, The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21, the Brief Resilience Scale, the Stressful Life Events List due to Pandemic and, demographic and clinical characteristics form were administered to the participants with face to face interviewing. Results The moderate to severe somatic distress rate was % 38 and probable PTSD rate was 20.4%. Depression, anxiety and stress symptoms were 36.1%, 49.1% and 45.4%, respectively, from mild to extremely severe at any level. There were substantial association between somatic symptoms severity and high PTSD, anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms levels. Low educations levels, high anxiety levels, high experience stressful life events, and low psychological resilience predicted high somatic distress levels. Conclusion This study demonstrates the high risk of somatic distress, PTSD, depression, anxiety and stress in patients with cancer during the pandemic. In addition, somatic distress may indicate high levels of psychological symptoms, high experience stressful life events, and low psychological resilience. It underscores the need to assess psychological status during the pandemic, especially those with high level somatic symptoms.

scholarly journals Psychological stress, stressful life events, male factor infertility, and testicular function: a cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira V. Bräuner ◽  
Loa Nordkap ◽  
Lærke Priskorn ◽  
Åse Marie Hansen ◽  
Anne Kirstine Bang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Stress ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Testicular Function ◽  
Male Factor Infertility ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Male Factor ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals Factors associated with relapse of schizophrenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
AKM Akramul Haque ◽  
AHM Kazi Mostofa Kamal ◽  
Zinat De Laila ◽  
Luna Laila ◽  
Helal Uddin Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Expressed Emotion ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

Schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric illness with high rate of relapse which is commonly associated with noncompliance of medicine, as well as stress and high expressed emotions. The objective of the study was to determine the factors of relapse among the schizophrenic patients attending in outpatient departments of three tertiary level psychiatric facilities in Bangladesh. This was a cross sectional study conducted from July, 2001 to June, 2002. Two hundred patients including both relapse and nonrelapse cases of schizophrenia and their key relatives were included by purposive sampling. The results showed no statistically significant difference in terms of relapse with age, sex, religion, residence, occupation and level of education (p>0.05), but statistically significant difference was found with marital status and economic status (p<0.01). The proportion of non-compliance was found to be 80% and 14%, of high expressed emotion was 17% and 2% and of the occurrence of stressful life events was 10% and 1% in relapse and non-relapse cases respectively which were statistically significant (p<0.001). The study indicated that stressful life events, high expressed emotion, and noncompliance with medication had a role in schizophrenic patients for its relapse.Bang J Psychiatry December 2015; 29(2): 59-63

Coping, life stress, and psychological and somatic distress

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
June E. Higgins ◽  
Norman S. Endler
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Somatic Distress ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Relationship Of

Theory and research have focused on the relationships among coping processes, stressful life events, and psychological and physical distress. This study was designed to examine the relationship of stressful life events and three styles of coping—emotion oriented, task oriented, and avoidance oriented—to physical and psychological distress. Questionnaires measuring coping styles, recent life stressors, and both physical symptoms and psychological symptoms were completed by 205 undergraduates (101 males and 104 females). It was hypothesized that task‐oriented coping would negatively predict distress and that emotion‐oriented coping would positively predict distress. The relationships of two types of avoidance‐oriented coping (distraction and social diversion) to distress were also examined. Multiple regression analyses revealed that task‐oriented coping was negatively related to distress, but only for males. Emotion‐oriented coping was significantly positively predictive of distress for both males and females. The two subcomponents of avoidance‐oriented coping—distraction and social diversion—were differentially related to measures of distress. Life event stress positively predicted distress, both as an independent contributor of variance and in interaction with several coping styles.

scholarly journals Stressful life events and posttraumatic growth among police officers: A cross-sectional study

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Leppma ◽  
Anna Mnatsakanova ◽  
Khachatur Sarkisian ◽  
Olivia Scott ◽  
Leonie Adjeroh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals Relationship between stressful life events and emotional intelligence in Mexican adolescents: Male vs. female comparative study

Salud Mental ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Veytia-López ◽  
Esther Calvete ◽  
Nicolás Sánchez-Álvarez ◽  
Rosalinda Guadarrama-Guadarrama
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional

Introduction. Adolescents can present high levels of stress when faced with various biopsychosocial changes, affecting their daily activities and influencing the initiation and development of risk behaviours and/or a mental disorder. Therefore, it is important to identify protective factors against stress, such as emotional intelligence, for adolescents. Objective. Determine the effect of stressful life events (SLE) and perceived emotional intelligence (PEI) on the stress level in adolescent high school students and identify differences by sex. Method. Cross-sectional study, 1 417 adolescents (57% women and 43% men), with an average age of 15.90 (SD = .91), who were evaluated in levels of PEI, SLE, and stress perceived. Results. The results show high rates of stressful events experienced. Attention to emotions increases the perception of stress in both sexes, while clarity and emotional repair have a stress-reducing effect on women. Discussion and conclusions. The results suggest that the PEI is determinant in the emotional self-control and the adaptive capacity of the adolescent to face stressful situations.

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