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Barahona, L., (2015). Efectos del impacto de recibir el diagnóstico de cáncer en la salud mental de pacientes adultos del hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins. Essalud. 2011 [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4555
Barahona, L., Efectos del impacto de recibir el diagnóstico de cáncer en la salud mental de pacientes adultos del hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins. Essalud. 2011 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4555
@phdthesis{renati/473730,
title = "Efectos del impacto de recibir el diagnóstico de cáncer en la salud mental de pacientes adultos del hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins. Essalud. 2011",
author = "Barahona Meza, Lorenzo Jorge",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2015"
}
--- Objectives: To measure the stress, depression, anxiety and delirium. If there are relation of them with the sex, age, schooling level, civil status, occupation type, believe or not believe in God, cancer prognosis in oncologic patients of the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins Hospital in 2012, Lima, Perú. Material and methods: I carried out a transversal and descriptive study. A population of 169 patients with cancer diagnostic. The study was not random. Entered to him according to entrance to the oncology services. After informed consent, a questionnaire composed by five previously validated instruments, were applied to measure stress, depression, anxiety, and delirium. Results: The stress was present in 50.3 %, depression in 58.6 %, anxiety in 18.3 %. There was delirium in one case, 0.6 %. The three firsts conditions were presents in 16 % of the participants and least one in 66.3 %. There had not statistic signification, with the sex, age, schooling level, civil status, occupation type, believe or not believe in God, cancer prognosis. The stress was associated with the depression and the anxiety by logistic regression. Conclusion: The oncologic patients showed 16 per cent, a significant high levels of stress, depression and anxiety. Two third of them showed at least one of those conditions. The stress was associated to depression (OR: 8.6, IC 95 % 3.9—18.8) and the anxiety (OR: 3.6, IC 95 % 1.1—11.1) by logistic regression. In that perspective, it is advisable to inquiry and intervention of these patients, the most fast possible. Key words: Cancer, stress, depression, anxiety
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