RODRIGUES, L. G.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9479610875297840; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6084704902133999; RODRIGUES, Lorena Gonçalo.; CARVALHO, Natalie Sena de.
Résumé:
The diagnosis of cancer is a traumatic and stressful experience for most
patients because it is a serious disease that can hinder the continuity of life. The
association between depression and anxiety and clinical disease is very frequent,
leading to a worse outcome both psychiatric disorders and clinical conditions, with
lower adherence to treatment guidelines and greater morbidity and mortality. The
objectives of this study were to analyze the global prevalence and site of tumor of
anxiety and depression in patients treated as outpatients in FAP as well as establish
their socioeconomic and demographic profile, using the Hospital Scale Anxiety and
Depression (HADS) and socioeconomic and demographic questionnaire, covering
the topics of age, sex, marital status, religion, occupational activity, economic income
and education. The participants were 187 patients of both sexes, with 129 women
and 58 men. The sample was random, being selected by lot, thirty-seven patients a
week who attended the service on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays a week, and
on Tuesdays and Thursdays of the following week, on alternate shifts in total of five
weeks. As a result, we found an overall prevalence of anxiety of 29.9% and 11.2% of
depression, being higher in females (31.8% and 11.6%, respectively). Patients with
skin cancer had a higher percentage of anxiety (50%), while those with respiratory
cancer had a higher percentage of depression (50%). Therefore, depressive states,
both for their prevalence and the consequences they entail, have remarkable
importance as a public health problem, stressing that depression has a strong
association with poor social functioning and quality of life and greater use of health
resources. In this study, women, elderly people, married, widowers and patients with
less education and lower socioeconomic status had the highest prevalence of anxiety
and depression.