Percepción subjetiva del tiempo y evaluación del estado emocional de pacientes con enfermedad crónica avanzada

Résumé

Objectives: Characterizing emotional state and perception over the years in patients with advanced chronic disease, and compare it to Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Methodology: It is a quantitative descriptive and transversal observational study in which we deepen the patient’s emotional state. Based on the administration of a questionnaire to collect demographic and clinical variables, in which the Karnofsky Index, Bayés Time Subjective Perceived Scale, Brief Scale of Introspection of the State of Mind, Scale of Evaluation of Edmonton Symptoms and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Results: Patients with advanced chronic illness presented anxious and depressive symptomatology’s high levels and a negative mood‘s predominance, existing a correlation between patients’ answers to Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the identified emotional states through the Brief Mood Introspection Scale. Over time, these patients perceive it as slow or very slow, existing interrelation with the presence of anxious and depressive symptomatology. Conclusions: The subjective perception of time and the description of mood using the Brief Mood Introspection Scale can be a good tool for the emotional distress detection.