Distress thermometer for preoperative screening of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma

In this study, we evaluate the association between distress, various demographic and medical variables, and the prevalence of psychosocial distress in preoperative patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma. A total of 100 consecutive patients were recruited into the study and asked to complete the Distress Thermometer (DT) form with the Problem List questionnaire prior to surgical intervention; the average distress score was 5.7 ± 2.7. The distress score was neither correlated with age (r= −0.025; p=0.804) nor with tumor size (r= 0.028; p=0.785).

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