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Social support decreases depressogenic effect of low-dose interferon alpha treatment in melanoma patients.
| العنوان: | Social support decreases depressogenic effect of low-dose interferon alpha treatment in melanoma patients. |
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| المؤلفون: | Kovács, Péter, Pánczél, Gitta, Balatoni, Tímea, Liszkay, Gabriella, Gonda, Xenia, Bagdy, Gyorgy, Juhasz, Gabriella |
| المصدر: | Kovács , P , Pánczél , G , Balatoni , T , Liszkay , G , Gonda , X , Bagdy , G & Juhasz , G 2015 , ' Social support decreases depressogenic effect of low-dose interferon alpha treatment in melanoma patients. ' , Journal of psychosomatic research , vol. 78 , no. 6 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.03.005 |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| المجموعة: | The University of Manchester: Research Explorer - Publications |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Anxiety, Depression, Interferon, Malignant melanoma, Proinflammatory cytokine pathway, Social support |
| الوصف: | OBJECTIVE: The most frequent serious psychological side effect of immune therapies is depression. In the present study, we tested whether social support, as a positive environmental effect, is able to moderate depression or anxiety symptoms in melanoma patients during adjuvant low-dose interferon treatment. METHODS: Hundred and twenty-seven melanoma patients with negative psychiatric history were included in our longitudinal study and followed up for one year. Depression and anxiety symptoms were measured six times during treatment: at baseline, at 1st, 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th month of the therapy. In addition, social support was investigated with the Social Dimension Scale. RESULTS: Depressive symptoms significantly increased during the 12-month follow-up period (p |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.03.005 |
| الاتاحة: | https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/7d041e44-6a7c-48a7-9381-9b0272c47797 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.03.005 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.354EF57E |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.03.005 |
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