Do hormone treatments cause anxiety and depression among prostate cancer patients?

Title
Do hormone treatments cause anxiety and depression among prostate cancer patients?
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Bitsika, Vicki
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2518-6684
Email: vbitsik2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:vbitsik2
Christie, David R H
Sharpley, Christopher
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7922-4848
Email: csharpl3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:csharpl3
Editor
Editor(s): Tony Costello, Declan Murphy
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/215803
une:14114
Abstract
Objective: To investigate the relationship between Hormone Therapy (HT) and incidence on anxiety and depression in prostate cancer patients (PCa). Methods: 526 PCa patients completed a survey about their cancer status, treatments received, anxiety and depression status. Total scores on anxiety and depression inventories, plus symptom profiles that discriminated between patients with current HT, past HT, and never having received HT, were compiled for analysis. Results: Patients who were currently receiving HT had significantly higher total anxiety and depression scores than patients who had previously received HT or who had never received HT. Analysis of the symptoms of anxiety and depression which distinguished between these groups of patients suggested that patients who had never received HT had significantly lower scores than current or past HT patients. Although several symptoms could be directly allocated to PCa and/or HT, symptom profiles were indicative of clinically significant anxiety and/or depression in patients who were currently receiving, or who had previously received, HT. Conclusion: Current HT may lead to symptoms of anxiety and/or depression which require clinical attention. These effects appear to decrease after completion of HT.
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Citation
BJU International, 112(Supplement S1), p. 56-57
ISSN
1464-410X
1464-4096
Start page
56
End page
57

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