Research progress on status quo of psychological distress in malignant tumor patients and its related factors
Han Manxia
Chen Huaying
Abstract：Objective:To know about the research progress on status quo of psychological distress in malignant tumor patients and its related factors in abroad and at home,so as to provide direction and guidance for the fur-ther research on psychological distress and its clinical application.Methods:The literatures on psychological dis-tress in malignant tumor patients in abroad and at home were checked out.The concept of psychological dis-tress,assessment tools,the status quo of psychological distress in patients with different diseases and the overall related factors were analyzed and reviewed.And it discussed these limitations of the research depth and breadth and clinical needs.Results:In abroad and at home the retrieved literatures on “tumor”and “psychological pain”or “psychological distress”were more,mainly referred to the investigation on psychological distress in the pa-tients with a single type of tumor,and the domestic researches were more than foreign researches.Conclusion:The related researches on the psychological distress of cancer patients were carried out by the scholars in abroad and at home,but the scope of the study was still relatively limited.Domestic research was in its infancy,the re-lated researches were less and evaluation tools were not unified compared with that in other countries,and the a-nalysis of its related factors also had different emphases.Therefore,further harmonization of assessment tools of psychological distress,expansion of research on different kinds of disease,and more comprehensive analysis of related factors,in order to guide the clinical treatment and care of psychological distres’s in china.
Keywords：malignant tumorpsychological distressinfinencing factorsassessment tool
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Pages：6( 1-6 )