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World J Psychiatry. Dec 19, 2025; 15(12): 109328
Published online Dec 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i12.109328
Published online Dec 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i12.109328
Correlations between anxiety/depression, self-efficacy, and social support in patients with gastric cancer and analysis of risk factors
Zhong-Yan Zhang, Xue-Jiao Yong, Shen Jiang, Department of Oncology Treatment Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing 400030, China
Co-first authors: Zhong-Yan Zhang and Xue-Jiao Yong.
Author contributions: Zhang ZY and Yong XJ designed the research and wrote the first manuscript; Zhang ZY, Yong XJ and Jiang S contributed to conceiving the research and analyzing data; Zhang ZY and Yong XJ conducted the analysis and provided guidance for the research; All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Ethic Committee of Chongqing University Cancer Hospital.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Shen Jiang, MD, Associate Chief Physician, Department of Oncology Treatment Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, No. 181 Hanyu Road, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400030, China. frankjiang2@cqu.edu.cn
Received: July 15, 2025
Revised: August 25, 2025
Accepted: October 9, 2025
Published online: December 19, 2025
Processing time: 135 Days and 0.4 Hours
Revised: August 25, 2025
Accepted: October 9, 2025
Published online: December 19, 2025
Processing time: 135 Days and 0.4 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: Focusing on patients with gastric cancer, this study investigates how anxiety, depression, self-efficacy, and social support interact, identifying key risk factors. The findings indicate a prevalence of mild anxiety depression symptoms among such patients, coupled with diminished self-efficacy and intermediate social support levels. Enhanced hospital anxiety and depression scale screening is recommended for high-risk subgroups (age ≥ 60, tumor ≥ 3 cm, general self-efficacy scale < 18) to improve psychological risk stratification and thus facilitate early intervention.