Anxiety and depression symptoms among women attending group-based patient education courses for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

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• 作者：Wenche Listøl ; Hildegunn Høberg-Vetti…
• 关键词：Group ; based patient education course ; Genetic counseling ; Hereditary cancer ; Anxiety symptoms ; Depression symptoms
• 刊名：Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：390KB
• 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Human Genetics;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1897-4287
• 卷排序：15

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BackgroundWomen carrying BRCA-mutations are facing significant challenges, including decision making regarding surveillance and risk-reducing surgery. They often report that they are left alone with these important decisions. In order to enhance the genetic counselling session we organized a group-based patient education (GPE) course for women with BRCA-mutations. The study aims were to characterize women attending a group-based patient education (GPE) course for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, consider the usefulness of the course, evaluate symptoms of anxiety and depression among the participants, and finally investigate whether their levels of anxiety and depression changed from before to after the course session.