Depression in advanced cancer - Assessment challenges and associations with disease load

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 173, Issue , 2015, Pages 176-184

  Lie, H C ^a,b   Hjermstad, M J ^b,c   Fayers, P ^c,d   Finset, A ^a   Kaasa, S ^c,e   Loge, J H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Depression; Disease load; Somatic symptoms; Symptom overlap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PREVALENCE; SOMATIC SYMPTOM CRITERIA; SUM SCORE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84913553891     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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