Psychiatric and cognitive correlates of quality of life among persons with primary brain tumors.

found that the prevalence of state and trait anxiety symptoms remained unchanged in pre- and postoperative brain tumor patients, though depressive symptoms significantly increase in a 1-year longitudinal follow-up period.[ 28 ] Tumor laterality, mainly right-sided tumors, was found to be associated with anxiety symptoms.[ 5 ] However, in our study, this association was quite close to significance ( P = 0.088) between anxiety symptoms and tumor laterality.

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