Preoccupation 2: Scripting the space.
Preoccupation 3: An insistence on instability.
Regardless of the sequence in which items were deleted (Analysis 8 or 9 Table 3), to achieve model, fit it was necessary to remove items 9 (anxious preoccupation), 21 (helplessness-hopelessness), 22 (anxious preoccupation), and 6 (helplessness-hopelessness).
Amount of preoccupation was correlated with the duration of preoccupation (0.47) and disruption to life (0.45); duration of preoccupation with disruption to life (0.42); amount of distress with intensity of distress (0.57).
Patients seeing a medical oncologist showed larger scores on the helpless/hopeless (F 1, 130)=7.1, P<0.01), anxious preoccupation (F 1, 130)=12.3, P<0.01) and avoidance scales (F 1, 130)=4.5, P<0.05), compared with radiation oncologists.
The 29-item mini-MAC was administered to assess five cancer specific coping strategies: 1) helplessness-hopelessness (8 items), 2) anxious preoccupation (8 items), 3) fighting spirit (4 items), 4) cognitive avoidance (4 items), and 5) fatalism (5 items).
These subscales are (1) worry about illness, (2) concerns about pain, (3) health habits, (4) hypochondriacal beliefs, (5) thanatophobia, (6) disease phobias, (7) bodily preoccupation, (8) treatment experience, and (9) effects of symptoms [ 3].
The effect of the intervention on coping and adjustment to cancer showed a transient difference at the 6-month follow-up, when the intervention group reported more anxious preoccupation (P=0.04) and helplessness (P=0.002) (Table 3).
The effect of the intervention on mood disturbance and adjustment to cancer showed a transient difference at the 6-month follow-up, where the intervention group reported less reduction in anxious preoccupation (P=0.04), helplessness (P=0.002), confusion (P=0.001) and depression (P=0.04).
Alcohol dependence is defined as a maladaptive pattern of substance use which has led to significant impairment or distress as manifested by three or more of the following symptoms occurring within the same 12 month period: 1) tolerance; 2) withdrawal; 3) loss of control 4) desire to quit; 5) preoccupation 6) give up on other activities and 7) used despite problems.
