TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Relationship of suicidal ideation with demoralization, depression, and anxiety: a study of cancer patients in mainland china
JO  - Journal of nervous and mental disease
A1  - Xu, Ke
A1  - Hu, Deying
A1  - Liu, Yilan
A1  - Han, Yanhong
A1  - Guo, Xin
A1  - Teng, Fen
A1  - Zhou, Yi
SP  - 326
EP  - 332
VL  - 207
IS  - 5
N2  - Demoralization is a form of psychological distress that may cause suicidal ideation. Demoralization syndrome is common among cancer patients, but there has been little empirical study on the association of suicidal ideation with demoralization, depression, and anxiety in this population. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of high demoralization among cancer patients in mainland China and the contribution of high demoralization to suicidal ideation beyond the impact of self-report depression and anxiety. In this cross-sectional study, 303 patients with cancer were invited to complete questionnaires. In total, 14.5% participants reported suicidal ideation and 49.50% high demoralization. Logistic regression analysis identified high demoralization as an independent risk factor for suicidal ideation. Only depression (odds ratio [OR], 6.68) had a stronger influence on suicidal ideation than demoralization (OR, 5.85), and patients with both depression and high demoralization were most likely to experience suicidal ideation. These findings suggest that measures of demoralization can help identify cancer patients at high suicide risk and that such patients require further attention and measures targeting demoralization for suicide prevention.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3018
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000974
ID  - ref1
ER  -