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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Palliat Support Care. 2022 Jun;20(3):328–333. doi: 10.1017/S1478951521001164

Table 2.

Rates of distress and mental health service use

Mental health service use
No Yes I don’t want mental health treatment Total
Depression (n, %)
 Low 11 (61.1) 4 (22.2) 3 (16.7) 18 (69.2)
 High 5 (62.5) 1 (12.5) 2 (25.0) 8 (30.8)
Anxiety (n, %)
 Low 13 (65.0) 2 (10.0) 5 (25.0) 20 (76.9)
 High 3 (50.0) 3 (50.0) 0 (0.0) 6 (23.1)
Total distress (n, %)
 Low 10 (66.7) 2 (13.3) 3 (20.0) 15 (57.7)
 High 6 (54.5) 3 (27.2) 2 (18.1) 11 (42.3)
Total 16 (61.5) 5 (19.2) 5 (19.2) 26 (100)

Note. Low depression: < 8 on HADS depression subscale; Low anxiety: < 8 on HADS anxiety subscale; Low total distress: < 11 on complete HADS scale.