Ma CY, Shang J, Zhang L, Chen J, Qian KY, Zhou JY. Anxiety, depression, and coping styles among cervical cancer patients during radiotherapy and their correlations with uncertainty in illness. World J Psychiatry 2025; 15(4): 103510 [DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i4.103510]
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Ju-Ying Zhou, Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, No. 188 Shizi Street, Gusu District, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu Province, China. zhoujuyingsy@163.com
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Psychiatry
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Retrospective Study
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World J Psychiatry. Apr 19, 2025; 15(4): 103510 Published online Apr 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i4.103510
Anxiety, depression, and coping styles among cervical cancer patients during radiotherapy and their correlations with uncertainty in illness
Chen-Ying Ma, Jing Shang, Lu Zhang, Jie Chen, Ke-Yan Qian, Ju-Ying Zhou
Chen-Ying Ma, Lu Zhang, Jie Chen, Ke-Yan Qian, Ju-Ying Zhou, Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu Province, China
Jing Shang, Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu Province, China
Author contributions: Ma CY designed the research and wrote the first manuscript; Ma CY and Zhou JY conducted the analysis and provided guidance for the research; Ma CY, Shang J, Zhang L, Chen J, Qian KY and Zhou JY contributed to conceiving the research and analyzing data; all authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81602792; The Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China, No. 23KJB310023; Jiangsu Provincial Medical Key Discipline, No. ZDXK202235; The Maternal and Child Health Research Project of Jiangsu Province, No. F202210; The Project of State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Soochow University, No. GZK1202101; Suzhou Science and Technology Development Plan Project, No. KJXW2020008; BOXI Natural Science Cultivation Foundation of China of The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, No. BXQN202107; Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Technology Innovation Project Youth Characteristic Technology Project of The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, No. 2100201.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Ethic Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There is no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Ju-Ying Zhou, Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, No. 188 Shizi Street, Gusu District, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu Province, China. zhoujuyingsy@163.com
Received: January 8, 2025 Revised: February 20, 2025 Accepted: March 3, 2025 Published online: April 19, 2025 Processing time: 76 Days and 2.4 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: This study comprehensively analyzed anxiety, depression, and coping styles and their association with illness uncertainty in patients with cervical cancer (CC) undergoing radiotherapy. The study enrolled 200 patients with CC undergoing radiotherapy. Several key findings of this study include a 39.5% prevalence of anxiety and a 41.0% prevalence of depression among the patients. Anxiety, depression, and several coping styles correlated significantly with the level of illness uncertainty during radiotherapy. These findings highlight the importance of healthcare providers in addressing patients’ emotional states and coping strategies and providing customized psychological support plans tailored to help patients alleviate negative emotions and develop healthy coping strategies, thereby reducing their illness uncertainty. This study provides novel insights and empirical data to inform nursing care and clinical decision-making for patients with CC.
