TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality traits and coping styles explain anxiety in lung cancer patients to a greater extent than other factors
AU - Shimizu, Ken
AU - Nakaya, Naoki
AU - Saito-Nakaya, Kumi
AU - Akechi, Tatsuo
AU - Ogawa, Asao
AU - Fujisawa, Daisuke
AU - Sone, Toshimasa
AU - Yoshiuchi, Kazuhiro
AU - Goto, Koichi
AU - Iwasaki, Motoki
AU - Tsugane, Shoichiro
AU - Uchitomi, Yosuke
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-aid for Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research (H22-033) to K.S. and Third Term Comprehensive 10-year Strategy for Cancer Control (H22-036) to Y.U., from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - Objective: Although various factors thought to be correlated with anxiety in cancer patients, relative importance of each factors were unknown.We tested our hypothesis that personality traits and coping styles explain anxiety in lung cancer patients to a greater extent than other factors. Methods: A total of 1334 consecutively recruited lung cancer patients were selected, and data on cancer-related variables, demographic characteristics, health behaviors, physical symptoms and psychological factors consisting of personality traits and coping styles were obtained. The participants were divided into groups with or without a significant anxiety using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety, and a binary logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors correlated with significant anxiety using a multivariate model. Results: Among the recruited patients, 440 (33.0%) had significant anxiety. The binary logistic regression analysis revealed a coefficient of determination (overall R2) of 39.0%, and the explanation for psychological factors was much higher (30.7%) than those for cancer-related variables (1.1%), demographic characteristics (2.1%), health behaviors (0.8%) and physical symptoms (4.3%). Four specific factors remained significant in a multivariate model. A neurotic personality trait, a coping style of helplessness/hopelessness, and a female sex were positively correlated with significant anxiety, while a coping style of fatalism was negatively correlated. Conclusions: Our hypothesis was supported, and anxiety was strongly linked with personality trait and coping style. As a clinical implication, the use of screening instruments to identify these factors and intervention for psychological crisis may be needed.
AB - Objective: Although various factors thought to be correlated with anxiety in cancer patients, relative importance of each factors were unknown.We tested our hypothesis that personality traits and coping styles explain anxiety in lung cancer patients to a greater extent than other factors. Methods: A total of 1334 consecutively recruited lung cancer patients were selected, and data on cancer-related variables, demographic characteristics, health behaviors, physical symptoms and psychological factors consisting of personality traits and coping styles were obtained. The participants were divided into groups with or without a significant anxiety using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety, and a binary logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors correlated with significant anxiety using a multivariate model. Results: Among the recruited patients, 440 (33.0%) had significant anxiety. The binary logistic regression analysis revealed a coefficient of determination (overall R2) of 39.0%, and the explanation for psychological factors was much higher (30.7%) than those for cancer-related variables (1.1%), demographic characteristics (2.1%), health behaviors (0.8%) and physical symptoms (4.3%). Four specific factors remained significant in a multivariate model. A neurotic personality trait, a coping style of helplessness/hopelessness, and a female sex were positively correlated with significant anxiety, while a coping style of fatalism was negatively correlated. Conclusions: Our hypothesis was supported, and anxiety was strongly linked with personality trait and coping style. As a clinical implication, the use of screening instruments to identify these factors and intervention for psychological crisis may be needed.
KW - Adaptation
KW - Anxiety
KW - Neoplasms
KW - Personality
KW - Psychological
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U2 - 10.1093/jjco/hyv024
DO - 10.1093/jjco/hyv024
M3 - Article
C2 - 25762799
AN - SCOPUS:84930006192
VL - 45
SP - 456
EP - 463
JO - Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
SN - 0368-2811
IS - 5
ER -