Larenks kanseri nedeniyle ameliyat olan hastaların psikolojik semptom dağıımının incelenmesi

Amaç: Larenks kanseri nedeniyle parsiyel veya totallarenjektomi uygulanan hastaların psikolojik semptomlerı incelendi.Hastalar ve Yöntemler: Total n=41 veya parsiyel n=22 larenjektomi uygulanan 63 hasta çalışmayaalındı. Ayrıca, yaş, cinsiyet ve sosyokültürel durumbakımından olgularla benzer 20 sağlıklı bireydenkontrol grubu oluşturuldu. Hastaların ameliyat sonrası poliklinik takiplerinde, belirti tarama testi olanSCL-90 R Symptom Check List-90 Revised ile psikolojik semptomlarının dağılımları incelendi. Bulgular: SCL-90 R testi ameliyat sonrası ortalama20.6 ayda dağılım 10-86 ay uygulandı. Total larenjektomili hastalarda kontrol grubuna göre, kişiler arası ilişkilerde duyarlılık, depresyon, öfke-düşmanlık,fobik anksiyete ve genel semptom düzeyi skorlarınınanlamlı derecede daha yüksek olduğu görüldü p

Analysis of the psychological symptoms of patients following surgery for laryngeal cancer

Objectives: We evaluated psychological symptoms of patients who underwent partial or total laryngecto- my for larynx cancer.Patients and Methods: The study included 63patients who undervvent total n=41 or partial n=22 laryngectomy. The control group consisted of 20 healthy individuals with similar gender, age, and sociocultural characteristics. During the postopera- tive follow-up, the psychological symptom distribu- tion of the patients was assessed with the Symptom Check-List-90-Revised SCL-90-R .Results: The SCL-90-R inventory was administered at a mean of 20.6 months range 10 to 86 months post- operatively. Patients with total laryngectomy had signifi- cantly higher scores than the Controls in the subscales of interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anger-hostility, phobic anxiety, and global symptom index p

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