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Psicologia, Saúde & Doenças

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LOPEZ, Carlos Alexis Chimpén  and  RUIZ, Víctor Arturo Chimpén. Emotional impact of the diagnosis of digestive cancer. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2011, vol.12, n.2, pp.298-303. ISSN 1645-0086.

The raised objective of our study was to analyze the emotional impact of knowing the diagnosis of digestive cancer. For that reason it was evaluated the repercussions of the digestive cancer in levels of depression (BDI: Beck Depression Inventory), quality of life (EORTC QLQ C30: Questionnaire of European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer) and anxiety (STAI: State/Trait Anxiety Inventory) before changes due to the treatment take place. It was compared two groups of patients, the first one was composed for 28 subjects diagnosed with digestive cancer and known by them and the second one was composed for 28 subjects with digestive cancer but diagnosed with an alternative digestive pathology. The results show that to know the diagnosis of digestive cancer in the very first moment of the illness only affect to the level of depression. The quality of life and state-anxiety are not sensible variable s to the digestive cancerous pathology.

Keywords : digestive cancer; anxiety; depression; quality of life.

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