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Table 1 Symptom scores over time

From: Depressive symptoms and cytokine levels in Serum and Tumor Tissue in patients with an Astrocytoma: a pilot study

 

Time

 

Pre-surgery (N = 22)

3 m post-surgery (N = 21)

6 m post-surgery (N = 20)

9 m post-surgery (N = 19)

12 m post-surgery (N = 19)

BDI-II

11.68 ± 1.70

16.66 ± 2.37

15.07 ± 1.84

14.21 ± 1.35

18.63 ± 1.48

MDASI Core

2.11 ± 0.33

3.03 ± 0.27

2.20 ± 0.18

2.07 ± 0.12

2.59 ± 0.20

MDASI BT

1.25 ± 0.25

1.68 ± 0.28

1.25 ± 0.16

1.16 ± 0.17

1.85 ± 0.25

MDASI Interference

3.14 ± 0.55

4.52 ± 0.37

4.04 ± 0.42

4.35 ± 0.37

4.61 ± 0.31

  1. Values given are mean ± standard errors. Abbreviations: m Months, BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory version II, MDASI Core M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory, MDASI BT M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory-Brain Tumor Module.