Prevalence and associated positive psychological variables of anxiety and depression among patients with central nervous system tumors in China: a cross-sectional study

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• 作者：Yijun Bao ; Lizhuo Li ; Yanlei Guan ; Wei Wang ; Yan Liu ; Pengfei Wang ; Xiaolong Huang ; Shanwei Tao and Yunjie Wang
• 刊名：Psycho-Oncology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：26
• 期：2
• 页码：262-269
• 全文大小：137K
• ISSN：1099-1611

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Anxiety and depression have been identified as common psychological distresses faced by the majority of patients with cancer. However, no studies have investigated the relationship between positive psychological variables (hope, optimism and general self-efficacy) and anxiety and depression among patients with central nervous system (CNS) tumors in China. Our hypothesis is that the patients with higher levels of hope, optimism or general self-efficacy have lower levels of anxiety and depression when encountered by stressful life events such as CNS tumors.