ABSTRACT
Many studies have been carried out on reducing the fear of patients while they are in the hospital or even when they visit their doctor, but none of them are conclusive. Patients should be treated with respect and humanity. Psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, and delirium are common in patients when they realize they have a disease. The physician needs to identify patients who are at increased risk for developing anxiety, such as those in advanced stage of disease; need to undergo specific cancer treatments; and having uncontrolled physical symptoms, functional limitations, lack of social support, and history of mental disorder. Diagnostic assessment and strategies for managing depression, anxiety, delirium, and suicidal ideation need to be in place to avoid demise for patients in the long term. Caregivers are hidden patients themselves, with adverse, severe physical and mental health consequences from their physically and emotionally demanding work as caregivers and reduced attention to their health and healthcare.
