Anxiety

Anxiety and depressive symptoms are associated with pain and disability but not active joint count or biomarkers of inflammation in adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, researchers report.

Using an electronic patient-reported outcomes system improves overall survival and offers other clinical benefits for patients undergoing chemotherapy for metastatic solid tumors, research suggests.

Cancer survivors are twice as likely as the general US population to report use of medication for anxiety and depression.

Depressive, anxiety and behavioural disorders may be important preceding clinical features in the onset of bipolar disorder, with the potential for targeted preventive care of at-risk individuals, study findings suggest.

Study findings support the use of the Overall Anxiety Severity And Impairment Scale as a brief measure of anxiety in the outpatient clinical setting.