Cited by 114Cancer survivorship and careOptimism, Hope, and Well-beingWomen's cancer prevention and management

Prevalence and associated positive psychological variables of depression and anxiety among Chinese cervical cancer patients: a cross-sectional study

Open access
Yang, Yi-Long, Liu, Li, Wang, Xiao-Xi, Wang, Yang, Wang, Lie·2014·PLoS ONE

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of depression and anxiety and its associated factors in cervical cancer are not well evaluated in China. Meanwhile, with increasing attention given to positive psychological variables in oncology field, there is a need to conduct a study to explore the integrative effects of positive psychological variables on depression/anxiety so as to provide patients a more holistic cancer care. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of depression/anxiety as well as the integrative effects of hope, optimism and general self-efficacy on depression/anxiety among Chinese cervical cancer patients. METHODS: A multi-centre, cross-sectional study was conducted of consecutive inpatients at the Liaoning Cancer Hospital & Institute and the Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University in Liaoning Province, northeast China. A total of 224 cervical cancer patients eligible for this study completed questionnaires on demographic and clinic variables, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Herth Hope Index, Life Orientation Scale-Revised, and General Self-Efficacy Scale during February and August 2013. RESULTS: The prevalence of depression and anxiety was 52.2% and 65.6% in cervical cancer patients. The anxiety score was significantly higher in patients at the period of 4-6 months after diagnose and at cancer stage II. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that hope, optimism and general self-efficacy as a whole accounted for 31.3% variance of depression and 35.6% variance of anxiety. Under standardized estimate (β) sequence, hope, optimism and general self-efficacy significantly associated with depression, respectively; hope and optimism were also significant individual predictors of anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: The high prevalence of depression and anxiety among cervical cancer patients should receive more attention in Chinese medical settings. More importantly, efforts to develop the integrated psychosocial interventions are effective and necessary to alleviate depression/anxiety in cervical cancer patients by synthesizing and integrating the individual protective effects of hope, optimism and general self-efficacy.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1371/journal.pone.0094804

Cites

62 of 62 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 5

  1. [9]Li TF, Chen R (2005) An outline of clinical epidemiology of cervical carcinoma. Practical journal of clinical medicine 2:: 19–21. [Article in Chinese]
  2. [41]Schwarzer R, Jerusalem M (1995) Generalized self-efficacy scale. In: Weinman J, Wright S, Johnston M. editors. Measures in health psychology: a user's portfolio. Causal and control beliefs. Windsor, UK: NFER-Nelson. pp. 35–37.
  3. [43]Wang YR (2012) GSES POMS-SF QLQ-C30 technology in cancer patients at rehabilitation stage application. China Journal of Pharmaceutical Economics 3:: 112–114. [Article in Chinese]
  4. [45]American Joint Committee on Cancer (2010) Cervix uteri. In: Edge SB, Byrd DR, Compton CC, et al.., editors. AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. 7th ed. New York, NY: Springer. pp. 395–402.
  5. [58]Merck Manual Home Edition (2007) Cervical Cancer: Cancers of the Female Reproductive System. Available: http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/womens_health_issues/cancers_of_the_female_reproductive_system/cervical_cancer.html?qt=&sc=&alt=. Accessed 17 November 2013.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Yang, Y.-L., Liu, L., Wang, X.-X., Wang, Y., & Wang, L.
Affiliations
China Medical University (CN)
Corresponding author
Wang, Lie
Venue
PLoS ONE
Published
2014-04-10
Volume
9
Issue
4
Pages
e94804
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2072487399
Cited by
108
References
62
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2
FWCI
3.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • China Medical University
  • Shengjing Hospital
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Women's cancer prevention and management
Keywords
cervical cancer, depression, anxiety, hope, optimism, general self-efficacy, prevalence, psychosocial interventions, Chinese patients, tumor stage, time since diagnosis
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Aged, Anxiety, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, China, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depression, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Quality of Life, Prevalence, Self Efficacy, Young Adult, Hope

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review