Psychological distress during the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic among cancer survivors and healthy controls

Psychooncology. 2020 Sep;29(9):1380-1383. doi: 10.1002/pon.5437. Epub 2020 Jul 3.

Danielle W L Ng^{1

2}, Frederick H F Chan³, Tom J Barry^{3

4}, Cherry Lam^{1

2}, Ching Y Chong^{1

2}, Hiu C S Kok^{1

2}, Qiuyan Liao¹, Richard Fielding^{1

2}, Wendy W T Lam^{1

2

5}

¹ Centre for Psycho-Oncological Research and Training, Division of Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
² Jockey Club Institute of Cancer Care, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
³ Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
⁴ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, England.
⁵ School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.

No abstract available

Keywords: attentional bias; cancer survivors; catastrophic thinking about Covid-19 pandemic; health anxiety; psychological distress.