Fatigue and Psychiatric Morbidity Among Hodgkin's Disease Survivors

• Published in: Journal of pain and symptom management Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 91 - 99
• Main Authors: Loge, Jon Håvard, Abrahamsen, Arne Foss, Ekeberg, Øivind, Kaasa, Stein
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.02.2000; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Anxiety; Biological and medical sciences; depression; Fatigue; Female; Hematologic and hematopoietic diseases; Hodgkin Disease - physiopathology; Hodgkin Disease - psychology; Hodgkin's disease; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Morbidity; neoplasms/psychology; Other diseases. Hematologic involvement in other diseases; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Regression Analysis; Surveys and Questionnaires; neoplasms/psychology; fatigue; Anxiety; depression; Hodgkin's disease; Mood disorder; Human; Lymphoproliferative syndrome; Depression; Fatigue; Hodgkin disease; Malignant hemopathy; Psychopathology; Lymphoma

Fatigue is prevalent among cancer patients, including Hodgkin's disease survivors (HDS). Fatigue is poorly understood, and the clinical management is consequently difficult. This cross-sectional study examined how fatigue related to psychiatric morbidity among 457 HDS (aged 19–74 years, 56% mal...