The efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients

Psychological distress scale is highly recommended for cancer patients’ care. Several psychological scales have been implemented in cancer outpatient clinics. However, the use of the psychological distress scale, particularly distress thermometer (DT), in the inpatient has not been reported. In this...

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Autores principales:	Abdullah Al-Shaaobi, Murad Alahdal, Shiying Yu, Hongming Pan
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Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Materias:	distress thermometer cancer inpatients ecog-sp scale cut-off score Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0dfe8cb2ea044b3085d9b00c90aa794f2021-11-26T11:19:48ZThe efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients1993-28201819-635710.1080/19932820.2021.1957199https://doaj.org/article/0dfe8cb2ea044b3085d9b00c90aa794f2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19932820.2021.1957199https://doaj.org/toc/1993-2820https://doaj.org/toc/1819-6357Psychological distress scale is highly recommended for cancer patients’ care. Several psychological scales have been implemented in cancer outpatient clinics. However, the use of the psychological distress scale, particularly distress thermometer (DT), in the inpatient has not been reported. In this study, we report the efficacy of DT in the determination of cancer inpatients’ supporting needs. A total of 170 inpatients diagnosed with cancer have been enrolled in this study. Only 132 patients matched the inclusion criteria, while other cases were excluded because of other diseases associated with cancer. The standardized problem list (PL) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were implemented in comparison with DT. Then, the cut-off score of DT was performed to identify clinically significant differences. The analysis of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve revealed that a DT cut-off score of 4 displayed 0.76 under the ROC curve. Sensitivity showed 0.86 sensitivity for cut-off score 4 and a specificity of 0.56 relative to the HADS cut-off score (≥15). DT scores were found independent of medical variables such as cancer type and stage, recurrence, or metastasis. Clinical ECOG-SP showed a significant association with the DT cut-off score (P ≤ 0.05). Regarding PL, patients with scores above DT cut-off were suffering 21 of 40 problems in all categories. Furthermore, patients that scored above the DT cut-off significantly showed an association with high support needs. DT scale showed significant performance in the evaluation of psychological distress among cancer inpatients through the efficient determination of their support needs.Abdullah Al-ShaaobiMurad AlahdalShiying YuHongming PanTaylor & Francis Grouparticledistress thermometercancer inpatientsecog-sp scalecut-off scoreMedicineRENLibyan Journal of Medicine, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2021)
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description	Psychological distress scale is highly recommended for cancer patients’ care. Several psychological scales have been implemented in cancer outpatient clinics. However, the use of the psychological distress scale, particularly distress thermometer (DT), in the inpatient has not been reported. In this study, we report the efficacy of DT in the determination of cancer inpatients’ supporting needs. A total of 170 inpatients diagnosed with cancer have been enrolled in this study. Only 132 patients matched the inclusion criteria, while other cases were excluded because of other diseases associated with cancer. The standardized problem list (PL) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were implemented in comparison with DT. Then, the cut-off score of DT was performed to identify clinically significant differences. The analysis of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve revealed that a DT cut-off score of 4 displayed 0.76 under the ROC curve. Sensitivity showed 0.86 sensitivity for cut-off score 4 and a specificity of 0.56 relative to the HADS cut-off score (≥15). DT scores were found independent of medical variables such as cancer type and stage, recurrence, or metastasis. Clinical ECOG-SP showed a significant association with the DT cut-off score (P ≤ 0.05). Regarding PL, patients with scores above DT cut-off were suffering 21 of 40 problems in all categories. Furthermore, patients that scored above the DT cut-off significantly showed an association with high support needs. DT scale showed significant performance in the evaluation of psychological distress among cancer inpatients through the efficient determination of their support needs.
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author	Abdullah Al-Shaaobi Murad Alahdal Shiying Yu Hongming Pan
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title	The efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients
title_short	The efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients
title_full	The efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients
title_fullStr	The efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients
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publisher	Taylor & Francis Group
publishDate	2021
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The efficiency of distress thermometer in the determination of supporting needs for cancer inpatients

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