title: Analyses on the rate and epidemic characteristics of anxiety and depression among cancer patients in Yangpu District in Shanghai.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the rate and epidemic characteristics of anxiety and depression of cancer patients in Yangpu district in Shanghai, China.
  
  
  METHODS
  A self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and a self-rating depression scale (SDS) were used to value the index of depression and anxiety of 560 cancer patients living in a community, randomly selected from the 'Shanghai cancer patients database' in cluster sampling. A total of 511 questionnaires were returned and valid.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The depression rate according to self- rating depression scale in cancer patients was 53.0%; and the anxiety rate according to self- rating anxiety scale in cancer patients was 32.7%. The rate for anxiety and depression was 30.1%; and the ratio of depression accompany with anxiety was 58.8%; the ratio of depression accompany with sub-anxiety was 4.35%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychological intervention is necessary for cancer patients, with comprehensive measures to improve life qualities and healing effects.
authors.affiliation: Yangpu District Center For Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China. anle_li@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Anle
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires