Listening to the Mind-Psychiatric Epidemiology and Mental Health in Breast Cancer Care—Global Perspectives and Insights from India
摘要
The present chapter contextualizes the psychiatric epidemiology of breast cancer survivors in India. The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and its impacts, along with the methodological challenges of measuring such morbidity, are highlighted in this chapter. Employing the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) measure scale and multiple statistics, the present chapter quantified the chapter's outcomes. The chapter's key findings highlight that the adjusted variation in psychological well-being score was 30.8% (F-statistic = 2.780, p-value = 0.0430), which significantly varied based on demography, social support, and financial problems among the sampled women. The correlation between financial problems and psychological well-being was positive (Coeff: 0.6575). The present chapter concludes that although psychological well-being among breast cancer survivors varies based on their demography and socioeconomic background, there is a need to focus on affordable breast cancer services and the promotion of physiological well-being support services for such survivors in India.