Psychological effects of stomas--II. Factors influencing outcome.
Sixteen patients with a moderate or severe anxiety and/or depression one year after stoma surgery were compared with 52 patients who had made a good psychiatric adjustment. Factors that were associated with an increased risk of psychiatric morbidity included a previous psychiatric history, postoperative physical symptoms and complications, inadequate advice and personality traits of neuroticism, anxiety and obsessionality.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000367:Age Factors; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology*; D003125:Colostomy / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007081:Ileostomy / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology*; D012306:Risk; D012917:Social Adjustment