Anxiety and fear of cancer recurrence and its association with supportive care needs and health-care service utilization in cancer patients

Purpose and methods We investigated the relationship between fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), anxiety, supportive care needs, and utilization of health-care services in a mixed sample of 335 cancer patients. We used validated questionnaires including the Fear of Progression Questionnaire-Short Form...

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Published in:Journal of cancer survivorship 2015-12, Vol.9 (4), p.567-575
Main Authors: Sarkar, Susanne, Sautier, Leon, Schilling, Georgia, Bokemeyer, Carsten, Koch, Uwe, Mehnert, Anja
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Anxiety
Anxiety - epidemiology
Anxiety - therapy
Cancer
Cross-Sectional Studies
Fear & phobias
Fear - psychology
Female
Health Informatics
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Health Services - utilization
Health Services Needs and Demand - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Neoplasms - pathology
Neoplasms - psychology
Neoplasms - therapy
Oncology
Palliative Care
Primary Care Medicine
Psychotherapy
Public Health
Quality of Life Research
Recurrence
Surveys and Questionnaires
Survivor
Survivors
Young Adult
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Summary:Purpose and methods We investigated the relationship between fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), anxiety, supportive care needs, and utilization of health-care services in a mixed sample of 335 cancer patients. We used validated questionnaires including the Fear of Progression Questionnaire-Short Form (FoP-Q-SF), the General Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) and the Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS-SF34). Health-care services utilization was measured by a self-constructed questionnaire recording the use of 22 health and supportive care offers. Results In our sample, 3.9 % of patients were classified as having high anxiety and 5.1 % had high FCR. Patients reported the highest unmet supportive care needs in the domain health system and information followed by psychological needs. Integrated care and complementary support services were the most frequently used (32 %) followed by medical (31 %), psychological (23 %), spiritual and religious (8 %) and other support services (9 %). Whereas anxiety was related to both unmet psychological and physical/daily living needs ( p  
ISSN:1932-2259
1932-2267
DOI:10.1007/s11764-015-0434-2