The Relationships between Dysfunctional Attitudes, Rumination, and Non-somatic Depressive Symptomatology in Newly Diagnosed Asian Cancer Patients

Given the high prevalence of cancer patients with comorbid depression, the present study sought to elucidate the relationships between two vulnerability factors, dysfunctional attitudes and rumination, and their influence on non-somatic depressive symptomatology in an Asian cohort of cancer patients. It was hypothesised that all variables of interest would be inter-correlated, and that both dysfunctional attitudes and rumination would mediate one another in influencing non-somatic depressive symptoms.
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research