- Title
- Smoking, drinking, and depression: comorbidity in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy
- Creator
- McCarter, Kristen; Baker, Amanda L.; Oldmeadow, Christopher; Britton, Benjamin; Wolfenden, Luke; Wratten, Chris; bauer, Judith; Halpin, Sean A.; Carter, Gregory; Beck, Alison K.; Leigh, Lucy
- Relation
- Cancer Medicine Vol. 7, Issue 6, p. 2382-2390
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cam4.1497
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- We aimed to determine the prevalence and co‐occurrence of tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, and depressive symptoms among a sample of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients undergoing radiotherapy. A total of 307 HNC patients participated in a multi‐site stepped‐wedge randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the effectiveness of a dietitian‐delivered health behavior intervention in patients with HNC undergoing radiotherapy. During week one of radiotherapy patients completed measures of smoking, alcohol consumption, and level of depression. Approximately one‐fifth (21%) of patients had two or more co‐occurring problems: current smoking, hazardous alcohol use, and/or likely presence of a major depressive episode (MDE). Approximately one‐third (34%) of the sample were current smokers, one‐third (31%) were drinking hazardously and almost one‐fifth (19%) had likely cases of depression. Comorbidity of smoking, hazardous alcohol use, and MDE is high in HNC patients, and interventions need to address this cluster of cancer risk factors.
- Subject
- alcohol; comorbidity; depression; head neck cancer; smoking
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407707
- Identifier
- uon:35771
- Identifier
- ISSN:2045-7634
- Rights
- © 2018 The Authors. Cancer Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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