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Emotional Distress in Portuguese Cancer Patients: The Use of the Emotion Thermometers

2023-07-13

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Cancer patients may experience significant distress. The “Emotion Thermometers” (ETs) are a short visual analogue scale used to screen patients for psychosocial risk. This study aimed to assess emotional distress in a large sample of cancer patients attending psychological services at an NGO, and to explore factors that may contribute to it. The ETs were answered by 899 cancer patients. They were, on average, 59.9...

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Literature Corpus work: 05aa6849-0b61-5ed8-b614-085d272a475d
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202307.0881.v1

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