Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Lung cancer (LC) affects psychosexual outcome and quality of life (QoL) of the patients because of short survival period and aggressive treatment modalities. The aim of our study was to investigate anxiety, depression, QoL and sexual satisfaction levels of LC patients.

METHODS

The data for metastatic LC patients treated with first or second-line chemotherapy were collected by using four forms completed during face-to-face interviews. The forms consist of socio-demographic characteristics, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Golombok-Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS) and European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer Questionnaires Quality of Life-C30 (EORTC-QoL-C30).

RESULTS

Forty-four LC patients were participated in this study. The total Beck scores of patients for anxiety and depression were very high (15.60 ± 12.30 and 16.02 ± 11.39; respectively). When we evaluated GRISS scores of our metastatic LC patients with respect to their anxiety or depression levels, we could not find any statistical significance. In the metastatic LC patients whose anxiety and depression scores were high, physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning of EORTC-QLQ-C30 was found statistically significantly low. Statistical significance in terms of role functioning was only found in the patients with high anxiety scores.

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

Metastatic LC patients had high anxiety and depression levels, decreased sexual satisfaction and impaired QoL.