Psychological distress during the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic among cancer survivors and healthy controls
Ce dossier présente un ensemble d'articles concernant la prise en charge des cancers durant la crise sanitaire liée au COVID-19
There is unprecedented global disruption due to the SARS‐CoV2 pandemic, causing a potentially lethal form of atypical pneumonia (COVID‐19), first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Pandemic spread was apparent by February 2020 with clusters of confirmed cases locally in Hong Kong (HKSAR), and in Korea, Japan, Australia/NZ, Europe and North America. Following 5 million cases and over 330 000 deaths, the psychological effects of COVID‐19 remain poorly documented. Previous experience with serious respiratory infectious disease (RID) outbreaks, for example, SARS, indicates that such outbreaks can cause high levels of psychological distress.1 Understanding how this distress can be attenuated during the COVID‐19 pandemic, particularly in vulnerable populations such as cancer patients, requires identifying its risk factors to inform tailored interventions (...)
Psycho-Oncology , article en libre accès, 2019