Research Article
Psychosocial Distress Scores and Needs among Newly Diagnosed Sarcoma Patients: A Provincial Experience
Table 2
Psychosocial distress findings among newly diagnosed sarcoma patients (n = 413).
| | Not at all | A little bit | Moderately | Quite a bit | Very much | No answer |
| Past week heart races | 299 (72%) | 65 (16%) | 16 (4%) | 8 (2%) | 4 (1%) | 21 (5%) | Feels loss of self-control | 311 (75%) | 46 (11%) | 21 (5%) | 11 (3%) | 4 (1%) | 20 (5%) | Lost interest | 297 (72%) | 64 (16%) | 13 (3%) | 15 (4%) | 1 (0.2%) | 23 (6%) | Nervous | 213 (52%) | 107 (26%) | 39 (9%) | 24 (6%) | 6 (1.5%) | 24 (6%) | Tense | 207 (50%) | 119 (29%) | 35 (9%) | 25 (6%) | 4 (1%) | 23 (6%) | Scary thoughts | 241 (58%) | 92 (22%) | 30 (7%) | 19 (5%) | 9 (2%) | 22 (5%) | Restless | 262 (63%) | 70 (17%) | 33 (8%) | 19 (5%) | 7 (2%) | 22 (5%) | Suicidal thoughts | 386 (94%) | 5 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (0.2%) | 21 (5%) | Depressed in the past 1 year | 290 (70%) | 61 (15%) | 20 (5%) | 12 (3%) | 9 (2%) | 21 (5%) | Depression in the past 2 years | 330 (80%) | 30 (7%) | 12 (3%) | 10 (2.5%) | 8 (2%) | 23 (6%) |
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