Factors connected with anxiety and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in advanced gastric cancer

Abstract

Objective: The aim of study was to determine factors connected with neuropsychiatric symptoms and anxiety in patients with terminal stomach cancer. Methods: We analyzed retrospectively 134 terminal stomach cancer patients admitted to Palliative Care Unit. Results: Patients with anxiety had greater chance for emergency admission, higher NRS result, occurrence of cachexia,occurrence of neuropsychiatric symptoms,longer duration of treatment, higher albumin concentration and lower glucose concentration. Patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms had greater chance for emergency admission, higher PS scale note, occurrence of dyselectrolytemia, lower albumin concentration. Patients with those symptoms had more than 7 times greater chance for death. Conclusion: It is important to know factors connected with neuropsychiatric symptoms and anxiety because thanks to that we could avoid those dangerous clinical symptoms.