标题：Depression in in-patient and outpatient treatment cancer patients and influencing factors Yatarak ve ayaktan kemoterapi alan kanser hastalarında depresyon ve etkileyen faktörler
摘要：Cancer brings serious psychological and sociological problems for patients and their relatives. The most common psychopathology seen in this patient group is depression. This study is conducted with the purpose of identifying the levels of depression seen in the cancer patients and their relatives and the factors affecting it. This is a descriptive study. The universe and sample of this study is in-patient and outpatient chemotherapy patients of Bulent Ecevit University Training and Research Hospital for the period February 15 – March 15, 2012. There were 146 patients and 127 patient relatives who accepted to contribute to this study. In collection of the data, Personnel Information Form and Beck Depression Measure (BDM) have been used. The BDM scores were 36.58 ±10.01 for the patients and 30.25 ±9.65 for the patient relatives. There is no statistically meaningful difference between BDM point averages of patients who know the diagnosis and have enough information about the illness (p>0.05). There is a statistically meaningful difference between the groups and BDM point averages are higher for patient relatives who know the illness of their patients (p<0.05). As a result of this study, it is seen that, both patients and their relatives face a severe depression; being an in-patient or outpatient, knowing the Diagnosis of disease having adequate knowledge does not effect the depression points; depression points are higher for those patient relatives that know the identity of disease of their patients.
