IPOS - Receipt of Psyccare-alex_j_mitchell_rotterdam
1. How many people with distress or
depression receive psychosocial care
in cancer settings?
………………An updated meta-analysis
Alex J Mitchell
ajm80@le.ac.uk
www.twitter.com/_alexjmitchell
Consultant in Psycho-oncology and Hon SnR
University of Leicester
5. Millions Living with Cancers (2010 SEER)
14
13
12
9.6
10
8
6.6
6
4.6
4
3
2
0
:1970
:1980
:1990
http://seer.cancer.gov/faststats/
:2000
:2010
6. Prevalence of depression in Oncology settings
Proportion meta-analysis plot [random effects]
0.5600 (0.4572, 0.6592)
Ciaramella and Poli (2001)
0.4900 (0.3886, 0.5920)
Massie et al (1979)
0.4850 (0.4303, 0.5401)
Bukberg et al (1984)
0.4194 (0.2951, 0.5515)
Passik et al (2001)
0.4167 (0.2907, 0.5512)
Baile et al (1992)
0.4000 (0.2570, 0.5567)
Morton et al (1984)
0.3958 (0.2577, 0.5473)
Hall et al (1999)
0.3722 (0.3139, 0.4333)
Burgess et al (2005)
0.3317 (0.2672, 0.4012)
Jenkins et al (1991)
Mj 15% Mn 19% Adj 20% Anx 10% Dysthymia 3%
0.7750 (0.6679, 0.8609)
Levine et al (1978)
70 studies involving 10,071 individuals;14 countries.
16.3% (95% CI = 13.9% to 19.5%)
Plumb & Holland (1981)
0.3182 (0.1386, 0.5487)
Green et al (1998)
0.3125 (0.2417, 0.3904)
Kathol et al (1990)
0.2961 (0.2248, 0.3754)
Hosaka and Aoki (1996)
0.2800 (0.1623, 0.4249)
Fallowfield et al (1990)
0.2565 (0.2054, 0.3131)
Golden et al (1991)
0.2308 (0.1353, 0.3519)
Spiegel et al (1984)
0.2292 (0.1495, 0.3261)
Evans et al (1986)
0.2289 (0.1438, 0.3342)
Grandi et al (1987)
0.2222 (0.0641, 0.4764)
Maunsell et al (1992)
0.2146 (0.1605, 0.2772)
Berard et al (1998)
0.2100 (0.1349, 0.3029)
Joffe et al (1986)
0.1905 (0.0545, 0.4191)
Berard et al (1998)
0.1900 (0.1184, 0.2807)
Devlen et al (1987)
0.1889 (0.1141, 0.2851)
Leopold et al (1998)
0.1887 (0.0944, 0.3197)
Akizuki et al (2005)
0.1797 (0.1376, 0.2283)
Razavi et al (1990)
0.1667 (0.1189, 0.2241)
Gandubert et al (2009)
0.1597 (0.1040, 0.2300)
Alexander et al (1993)
0.1333 (0.0594, 0.2459)
Kugaya et al (1998)
0.1328 (0.0793, 0.2041)
Payne et al (1999)
0.1290 (0.0363, 0.2983)
Ibbotson et al (1994)
0.1242 (0.0776, 0.1853)
Prieto et al (2002)
0.1227 (0.0825, 0.1735)
Morasso et al (1996)
0.1121 (0.0593, 0.1877)
Desai et al (1999) [early]
0.1111 (0.0371, 0.2405)
Silberfarb et al (1980)
0.1027 (0.0587, 0.1638)
Costantini et al (1999)
0.0985 (0.0535, 0.1625)
Morasso et al (2001)
0.0985 (0.0535, 0.1625)
Ozalp et al (2008)
0.0971 (0.0576, 0.1510)
Love et al (2002)
0.0957 (0.0650, 0.1346)
Alexander et al (2010)
0.0900 (0.0542, 0.1385)
Coyne et al (2004)
0.0885 (0.0433, 0.1567)
Kawase et al (2006)
0.0851 (0.0553, 0.1240)
Walker et al (2007)
0.0831 (0.0568, 0.1165)
Grassi et al (1993)
0.0828 (0.0448, 0.1374)
Grassi et al (2009)
0.0826 (0.0385, 0.1510)
Reuter and Hart (2001)
0.0761 (0.0422, 0.1244)
Lee et al (1992)
0.0660 (0.0356, 0.1102)
Pasacreta et al (1997)
0.0633 (0.0209, 0.1416)
Sneeuw et al (1994)
0.0540 (0.0367, 0.0761)
Singer et al (2008)
0.0519 (0.0300, 0.0830)
Katz et al (2004)
0.0500 (0.0104, 0.1392)
Mehnert et al (2007)
0.0472 (0.0175, 0.1000)
Lansky et al (1985)
0.0455 (0.0291, 0.0676)
Derogatis et al (1983)
0.0372 (0.0162, 0.0720)
Hardman et al (1989)
0.0317 (0.0087, 0.0793)
Massie and Holland (1987)
0.0147 (0.0063, 0.0287)
Colon et al (1991)
0.0100 (0.0003, 0.0545)
combined
0.1730 (0.1375, 0.2116)
0.0
0.3
0.6
proportion (95% confidence interval)
0.9
10. Chances of No Treatment for Colorectal
Ca (2011)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
No m ental
disorder
Substance
abuse disorder
Other m ental
disorder
Mood disorder
Any m ental
disorder
Psychotic
disorder
Dem entia
Baillargeon J, et al Effect of mental disorders on diagnosis, treatment, and survival of older adults with colon cancer. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Jul;59(7):1268-73.
11. Chances of No Diagnosis for Colorectal Ca
(2011)
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
No Mental
Disorder (n
559,971)
Substance Use
Disorder (n
53,443)
Other Mental
Disorder (n
59,322)
Mood Disorder
(n=8261)
Any Mental
Disorder (n
520,699)
Psychotic
Disorder (n
53,576)
Dementia (n
57,267)
Baillargeon J, et al Effect of mental disorders on diagnosis, treatment, and survival of older adults with colon cancer. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Jul;59(7):1268-73.
16. 12mo Service Use (NIH, 2002)
40
34.6
32.7
35
Cancer n=4878
No Cancer n=90,737
30
25
19.1
20
16.1
% Receiving Any treatment for Mental Health
14
15
10
11.7 11
7.2
5.7
6.3
5.7 5
6.4
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8.9
7.7
6.5
6.2
3.9
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2.3
3.2
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Maria Hewitt, Julia H. Rowland Mental Health Service Use Among Adult Cancer Survivors: Analyses of the National Health Interview Survey Journal of Clinical
Oncology, Vol 20, Issue 23 (December), 2002: 4581-4590
17. Receipt of Care
Receipt of
Any Help
Receipt of
Individual Support
Receipt of
Information
Receipt of
Group
21. Proportion meta-analysis (n=1844)
PATIENTS……….. Want Help?plot [random effects]
Shim et al (2008) [Distressed]
0.66 (0.52, 0.77)
van Scheppingen et al (2011) [Distressed]
0.57 (0.44, 0.70)
Mitchell et al (2012) [Distress or Depressed]
0.56 (0.48, 0.64)
Sharpe et al (2004) [Depressed]
0.49 (0.41, 0.58)
Luutonen et al (2011) [Depressed]
0.47 (0.36, 0.58)
Carlson et al (2010) [Distressed]
0.46 (0.41, 0.51)
Söllner et al (2004) [Distress]
0.43 (0.33, 0.54)
Tuinman et al (2008) [Distressed]
0.43 (0.34, 0.53)
Graves et al (2007) [Distressed]
0.33 (0.27, 0.40)
Ryan et al (2011) [Depressed]
0.32 (0.22, 0.43)
Morasso et al (2010) [Distressed]
0.31 (0.16, 0.50)
Clover et al (2010) [Distressed]
0.29 (0.24, 0.35)
Baker-Glenn et al (2010) [distressed]
0.27 (0.20, 0.35)
combined
0.43 (0.37, 0.49)
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
proportion (95% confidence interval)
0.8
22. CLINICIANS. Who Offers Psychosocial Help? (n=2557)
Proportion meta-analysis plot [random effects]
Söllner et al (2004)
0.97 (0.91, 0.99)
Morasso et al (2010)
0.82 (0.66, 0.92)
Mitchell et al (2012) [help or referral]
0.52 (0.46, 0.59)
Fritsche et al (2004)
0.51 (0.40, 0.61)
Shimizu et al (2005)
0.50 (0.41, 0.58)
Plass and Koch (2001)
0.47 (0.38, 0.56)
Bramsen et al (2008)
0.45 (0.35, 0.55)
van Scheppingen et al (2011) [help or referral]
0.32 (0.21, 0.45)
Siedentopf et al (2009)
0.23 (0.19, 0.28)
Kadan-Lottick et al (2005)
0.22 (0.17, 0.27)
Ellis et al (2009) [Referral]
0.42 (0.31, 0.54)
Bogaarts et al (2011) [Referral]
0.38 (0.27, 0.49)
Keller et al (2004) [Referral]
0.34 (0.23, 0.46)
Carlson et al (2010) [Referral]
0.30 (0.25, 0.35)
Shimizu et al (2009) [Referral]
0.25 (0.18, 0.33)
Verdonck-de Leeuw et al (2009) [Referral]
0.21 (0.05, 0.51)
Mitchell et al (2012) [Referral]
0.19 (0.14, 0.25)
van Scheppingen et al (2011) [Referral]
0.14 (0.07, 0.25)
combined
0.40 (0.31, 0.50)
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
proportion (95% confidence interval)
1.0
23. How Many Patients Receive Psychosocial Help?
Proportion meta-analysis plot [random effects]
Kadan-Lottick et al (2005)
0.89 (0.77, 0.96)
Plass and Koch (2001)
0.60 (0.46, 0.72)
Siedentopf et al (2009)
0.46 (0.35, 0.58)
Fritsche et al (2004)
0.43 (0.28, 0.59)
Bogaarts et al (2011)
0.38 (0.27, 0.49)
Söllner et al (2004)
0.35 (0.26, 0.45)
Shimizu et al (2005)
0.28 (0.18, 0.41)
Shimizu et al (2009)
0.25 (0.18, 0.33)
Merckaert et al (2009)
0.21 (0.17, 0.25)
Morasso et al (2010)
0.16 (0.05, 0.33)
Sharpe et al (2004)
0.15 (0.10, 0.22)
McDowell et al (2010)
0.14 (0.11, 0.18)
combined
0.35 (0.25, 0.46)
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
proportion (95% confidence interval)
0.8
1.0
25. Bow el m ovem ent constipation
“Desire for Help”
City of Hope
n=4000
23.4%
Questions and fe ar about end of life
24.0%
Finding reliable head&neck inform ation
24.2%
Losing control
24.8%
Needing help coordinating m y m edicalcare
25.3%
Feeling irritable or angry
25.5%
Finding com m unity resources
27.1%
27.5%
Insurance
Feeling anxious or fearful
29.2%
Talking w ith healthcare team
29.6%
Managing my em otions
29.7%
Fee ling dow n or depresse d
30.7%
Pain
30.8%
Fatigue
32.9%
Understanding m y treatm ent options
33.9%
Side-effects of treatme nts
34.9%
Finances
35.0%
Sleeping
36.5%
Supplem ents w hile on treatm ent
37.1%
Worry about the future
0.0%
37.6%
5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
35.0%
40.0%
University professor, 37, dies from lung cancer after string of doctors dismissed symptoms as 'anxiety and depression'
Lisa Smirl, 37, saw three doctors with a range of symptoms over a year
Had been suffering from shortness of breath, weight loss and arm pain
Despite this, doctors dismissed her symptoms as psychological
By the time cancer was diagnosed it had spread throughout her body
Cambridge-educated lecturer died last month, a year after being diagnosed
By Anna Hodgekiss
PUBLISHED: 11:24, 8 March 2013 | UPDATED: 15:56, 8 March 2013
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A university professor died of lung cancer aged 37 after doctors repeatedly dismissed her illness as 'purely psychological'.
Lisa Smirl, 37, saw three different doctors with a range of symptoms over a year-long period but they were dismissed as anxiety and depression.
By the time cancer was finally diagnosed it had spread throughout her body and was terminal.
Dr Smirl, who was married to a medical doctor and lived in Leeds and Brighton, kept a heartbreaking online blog about her treatment.
Misdiagnosis: Despite Lisa Smirl seeing three doctors with symptoms, her lung cancer was repeatedly written off as 'anxiety and depression'
Shortly after her diagnosis, she wrote: 'How is it possible that a 36-year-old, health [obsessed] conscious, occasionally social smoking, middle class, fiance of a doctor can develop metastatic lung cancer unnoticed. How?!?
'What the consultant told us was that not only was it the c-word, but that it was everywhere.
'My brain, my bones, my liver. While in some ways this was a terrible surprise, in another it was a huge relief.
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'For the last year I'd been battling a range of bizarre and seemingly disparate symptoms that had forced me in September 2011 to go on sick leave from my job as a lecturer (assistant professor).
'The diagnosis at the time was anxiety and/or depression. And while I was both anxious and depressed, this was due to the increasingly disabling symptoms that my doctor kept insisting were purely psychological.
'So I was actually grateful for a medical diagnosis that confirmed there were objective, physical reasons behind my illness.'
Cambridge-educated Dr Smirl, who was originally from Canada, wrote how she first experienced shortness of breath and wheezing in late 2010, which was wrongly diagnosed as asthma.
Not psychological: Lisa Smirl said in her blog she was relieved to have a concrete diagnosis even though it was of cancer
In spring 2011, she was referred to a physiotherapist for shoulder and arm pain and started experiencing 'visual migraines' - losing her vision for half an hour - in June.
By September 2011, Dr Smirl was so sick she was forced to leave work, having been diagnosed with depression and anxiety and put on anti-depressants.
But despite a dramatic weight loss, she claimed three different family doctors refused to consider her symptoms in connection with each other.
Relief: Dr Smirl wrote a blog on her diagnosis, saying she was 'actually grateful' for a medical diagnosis that confirmed there were 'objective, physical reasons' behind her symptoms
She wrote: 'Still, despite my pleas, and a dramatic weight loss, none of my doctors (and I saw three different family practitioners) would consider my symptoms in conjunction with one another - insisting that they were all common, unrelated problems (migraines, asthma, depression, back pain).'
In November 2011, she misread her asthma prescription and took ten times the recommended amount - but the drug made no difference to a violent cough.
Her doctor finally sent her for a routine X-ray and within hours, she was given the devastating news that she had cancer.
On her blog, called Stage V - as stage IV of cancer is considered terminal - she describes her journey from 'a woman diagnosed with "anxiety" to one with metastatic cancer'.
Dr Smirl wrote: 'I can't prove it, and this is just my opinion, but I have no doubt in my own mind that my misdiagnosis was in large part due to the fact that I was a middle aged female and that my male doctors were preconceived towards a psychological rather than a physiological diagnosis.
'It is so easy to say that someone's symptoms are "anxiety" related if they are a little bit complicated, unclear or unusual. Don't repeat my mistakes.
'You know when something is wrong. Find another doctor that you connect with and who takes your concerns seriously. Get referrals. Get tested. Refuse to be dismissed.'
Dr Smirl worked in the global studies department at the University of Sussex between 2009 and 2012, but took early retirement.
Despite battling the disease, she maintained an honorary lectureship in the department until her death on February 21.
She also completed a Great North Run to raise funds for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation in November 2012.
A blog post from November 3 2012, marking the one year anniversary of Lisa's lung cancer diagnosis
Professor Richard Black, head of the school of global studies at the University of Sussex, led tributes.He said: 'Lisa was a fantastic colleague and friend, a great teacher and researcher and truly inspirational in the way she dealt with her illness.'
Professor Justin Rosenberg, head of international relations, added: 'Lisa was an outstanding colleague who shared her intellectual and personal vivacity with academics and students alike.'
West Sussex PCT and the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust were unable to confirm that they were involved with Lisa's treatment.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Your Guide to Choosing Quality Healthcare. [June
16, 2008]. Accessed at http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/qnt/qntqlook.htm
Affiliations of authors: Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Department,
American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA (AJ, MJT, MMC, EW); Division of Cancer
Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
(HKW, CE, UAA); Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD (RA); Division of
Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda,
MD (LAGR, BKE); North American Association of Central Cancer Registries,
Two surprises => rate stable and rate in pall
We identi. ed 70 studies with 10 071 individuals across 14 countries in
oncological and haematological settings. Prevalence of depression by DSM or ICD criteria was 16·3% (13·4–19·5); for
DSM-de. ned major depression it was 14·9% (12·2–17·7) and for DSM-de. ned minor depression 19·2% (9·1–31·9).
Prevalence of adjustment disorder was 19·4% (14·5–24·8), anxiety 10·3% (5·1–17·0), and dysthymia 2·7% (1·7–4·0).
Combination diagnoses were common; all types of depression occurred in 20·7% (12·9–29·8) of patients, depression
or adjustment disorder in 31·6% (25·0–38·7), and any mood disorder in 38·2% (28·4–48·6). There were few
consistent correlates of depression: there was no e. ect of age, sex, or clinical setting and inadequate data to examine
cancer type and illness duration.
Maria Hewitt, Julia H. Rowland Mental Health Service Use Among Adult Cancer Survivors: Analyses of the National Health Interview Survey Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 20, Issue 23 (December), 2002: 4581-4590
From the National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine, Washington,
DC, and Office of Cancer Survivorship, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Your Guide to Choosing Quality Healthcare. [June
16, 2008]. Accessed at http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/qnt/qntqlook.htm
Karen Clark Matt Loscalzo City of Hope
In an audit of medical records of 1660 patients seen in Florida cancer centres, Jacobsen et al (2010) found that only 52% contained evidence of an assessment of psychosocial wellbeing
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FIGURE 2.4. Survival of 2,819 breast cancer patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program
of the National Cancer Institute, 1983–1998. Calculated by the life table method and strati fi ed by race.