Psychological Distress Articles

To assess age-based differences in psychological and physical symptoms of bladder cancer (BC) patients at different disease stages.

This was a cross-sectional single-center retrospective study between 2014 and 2017, assessing BC patients at different time points of their disease trajectory, after completing the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System-revised (ESAS-r) questionnaire.

There are known associations between treatment of prostate cancer (PCa) involving Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) and psychological and physical side effects. We investigate the associations between cancer-related symptoms, health-related quality of life (HRQL), and poor psychological outcomes in men whose treatment for PCa involved ADT.

We studied experiences and psychological distress of partners of prostate cancer patients at the time of diagnosis and primary treatment and investigated associates of their psychological wellbeing and the emotional social support they give to and receive from the patient.

To determine the individual and mutual predictors of the marital satisfaction of couples in which the husband experienced prostate cancer.

Marital satisfaction of prostate cancer patients has been insufficiently studied in Asian countries as compared with Western countries.

Beliefs that men should restrict their display of emotions, or restrictive emotionality, might contribute to adjustment to cancer and this might be sensitive to social receptivity to disclosure. The present research examined relationships of restrictive emotionality, social constraints, and psychological distress in young adults with testicular cancer (N = 171; Study 1) and older men with prostate cancer (N = 66; Study 2).

Peyronie's disease (PD) is a chronic inflammatory disease involving the tunica albuginea of the penis. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a possible invalidating symptom of PD. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, psychological impact, and risk factors of ED in patients with PD.

To quantify distress in men treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) or active surveillance (AS).

In a retrospective cross-sectional design, we assessed men through questionnaire and investigator-designed questions.

To examine the relative risk of psychological distress of men with prostate cancer and their partners during the period before and after prostate cancer diagnosis compared with men without prostate cancer and their partners.

Interest in the disease-specific psychological well-being of patients with cancer has increased, and it has been estimated that less than half of all patients with cancer are properly identified and subsequently treated for anxiety or depression.

This article analyzed how sexual satisfaction, suffering, severity and impact of urinary incontinence, and psychological morbidity affected women's quality of life and whether suffering mediated the relationship between psychological morbidity and quality of life.

To examine the extent to which mindfulness skills influence psychological distress and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in men with metastatic or castration-resistant biochemical progression of prostate cancer.

Female partners of prostate cancer (PCa) survivors experience heightened psychological distress that may be greater than that expressed by PCa patients. However, optimal approaches to detect distressed, or at risk of distress, partners are unclear.

To describe trajectories of health-related quality of life, life satisfaction and psychological adjustment for men with prostate cancer over the medium-long term and identify predictors of poorer outcomes using growth mixture models.