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The role of comorbid depression on frequency of provider visits and stage of diagnosis of melanoma patients
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The role of comorbid depression on frequency of provider visits and stage of diagnosis of melanoma patients
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Matari
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Joulia
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Joulia Matari
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Frederick
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Srinivasan
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Shankar
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Shankar Srinivasan
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Gohel
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Rutgers University
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School of Health Professions
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2019-08
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English
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Depression has been cited by multiple sources to worsen outcomes of patients with melanoma. There have been exhaustive studies that have provided correlative and implicative evidence that comorbid depression leads to worse outcomes for melanoma patients. These reasons include poor adherence to follow-up care, initial diagnosis occurring at a later stage, among others. However, there have been few studies that have been able to quantify these relationships. This study quantified these observations via retrospective cohort data and found that melanoma patients with depression and higher PHQ4 scores presented to their healthcare providers with higher frequency and that melanoma patients with depression were more likely to be unmarried and white. However, no difference was found in regards to stage of malignancy at time of initial diagnosis among melanoma patients with and without depression. Therefore, this study identifies an inefficiency in healthcare provided to this subset of melanoma patients and advises healthcare providers to consider providing screening or referrals to specialists.
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Biomedical Informatics
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Melanoma -- Patients -- Psychology
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Depression, Mental
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ETD doctoral
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Joulia
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2019-08-08 14:13:15
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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