Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research
Role of distress thermometer as a screening tool for psychological distress in oncology- a cross- sectional observational study in a tertiary care hospital of punjab
Harjot Singh, Darpan Bansal, Harleen Kaur, Divya Randhawa, Sanna Grewal
JCDR. 2023: 606-614
Abstract
Psychological distress in patients fighting with cancer is woefully an under diagnosed problem. Our study was a cross sectional observational study, carried out at SGRDIMSR, Punjab, India, between October 2022 to December 2022 to evaluate psychological and physical distress and symptom burden in Indian population with cancer using the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Distress Thermometer (DT).
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