Psychosocial morbidity and adjustment to illness among long-term cancer survivors. A six-year follow-up study

Psychosomatics
L Grassi, G Rosti

Abstract

Psychiatric morbidity (DSM-III-R) and adjustment to illness (psychological stress, illness behavior, and coping) were prospectively studied in 52 cancer patients who had been evaluated at the time of cancer diagnosis 6 years earlier. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders decreased from 47% to 37%. Improvement in psychological adjustment (low interpersonal sensitivity, psychoticism, paranoia, disease conviction, and anxious preoccupation) was found between these two assessment points. A lifetime history of psychopathology and psychiatric problems at baseline was associated with a current mental disorder. External locus of control, low social support, abnormal illness behavior, emotional stress, and poor coping mechanisms, as evaluated at first assessment, were also associated with psychological symptoms and maladjustment to cancer at follow-up. From the data reported, the need to maintain a continuity of psychosocial care among cancer survivors is inferred.

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