Hope and Distress Are Not Associated With the Brain Tumor Stage

Frontiers in Psychology

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Simone Mayer¹  Martin Teufel²  Stefanie Fuchs²  Madeleine Fink³  Norbert Schäffeler²  Stephan Zipfel²  Franziska Geiser⁵  Heinz Reichmann¹  Björn Falkenburger¹  Marco Skardelly⁶ 

[1] Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden;Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tübingen;Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR University Hospital Essen;Section of Psycho-Oncology, West German Cancer Center (WTZ), University Hospital Essen;Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn;Center for Neuro-Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center Tübingen-Stuttgart, University Hospital Tübingen;Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Tübingen;Department of Neurosurgery, District Hospital Reutlingen

关键词: depression;    glioblastoma;    brain tumor;    meningioma;    cancer;    hope;    distress;    oncology;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642345

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Objective Hopelessness and depression are strongly associated with suicidality. Given that physical and psychological outcomes can be altered with hope, hope is a therapeutic goal of increasing importance in the treatment of brain tumor patients. Moreover, it is not yet understood which factors affect the perception of hope in brain tumor patients. In addition, it remains uncertain whether lower-grade brain tumor patients suffer less from psycho-oncological distress than higher-grade brain tumor patients.

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