title: Peculiarities of Anxiety Score Distribution in Adult Cancer Patients.
abstract: The goal of the present research is to investigate and analyze possible peculiarities of the psychological state of cancer patients undergoing treatment. Scores characterizing the trait and state anxiety were acquired using the Integrative Anxiety Test from four groups: adults with no appreciable disease, pregnant women, cancer patients examined during the specific antitumor treatment, and cancer patients brought into lasting clinical remission. Statistical analysis of the testing results revealed the bimodal type of the distribution of scores. The only statistically significant exception was the distribution of the state anxiety scores in cancer patients undergoing treatment that was clearly unimodal.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Clinical Radiology, Russian Research Centre for Radiology and Surgical Technologies , Saint Petersburg , Russia.
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blank
authors.affiliation: a Department of Clinical Radiology, Russian Research Centre for Radiology and Surgical Technologies , Saint Petersburg , Russia.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Blank
authors.affiliation: b Center for Advanced Studies, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University , Saint Petersburg , Russia.
authors.forename: Ekaterina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Myasnikova
authors.affiliation: c Laboratory of Biomedical Informatics, Saint Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of Russian Academy of Sciences , Saint Petersburg , Russia.
authors.forename: Daria
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Denisova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012074:Remission Induction
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents
keywords: anxiety; cancer; distribution regularity; oncology