On World Mental Health Day, NCCN Announces Free Updated Distress Screening Tool, Available in More Than 70 Languages
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PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
-- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Distress Thermometer helps
people with cancer worldwide receive better care by empowering discussion and
recommending best practices for managing psychological wellness.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network(R) (NCCN(R)) today announced an
updated NCCN Distress Thermometer (
), available in more than 70 languages, to help people around the world
identify and address psychosocial stressors that may raise challenges when
coping with having cancer, its symptoms, or treatment. The announcement comes
on World Mental Health Day, an international day for raising awareness of
global mental health needs and resources.
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"The NCCN Distress Thermometer has been helping to normalize and encourage
discussion of distress as a standard part of oncology patient visits since
1997," said Michelle Riba, MD, MS, University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center,
Chair of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines(R))
Panel for Distress Management. "We recently overhauled this free one-page
resource to be even more user-friendly and inclusive. Distress screening should
be a routine part of cancer care for everyone, everywhere. By making this free
resource even easier to understand and use, as well as more accessible, we hope
all people with cancer will receive the support they need in order to achieve
the best possible outcomes."
The tool includes a simple scale for indicating the amount of distress a
patient is experiencing. It also features a straightforward checklist of
concerns covering different domains, including:
-- Physical;
-- Emotional;
-- Practical;
-- Social;
-- and Spiritual or Religious.
In addition to the one-page NCCN Distress Thermometer and Problem List (
), there are full NCCN Guidelines(R) for Distress Management (
) containing evidence-based expert consensus recommendations intended for
health care providers. There are also NCCN Guidelines for Patients(R): Distress
During Cancer Care (
) with the same information in an accessible format to empower patients and
caregivers to participate in shared decision-making.
The updated NCCN Distress Thermometer translations are part of NCCN's ongoing
efforts to make NCCN Guidelines and associated clinical resources more
accessible for non-English speakers. It is now available in the following
languages, in addition to the original English:
- Afrikaans - Hindi - Portuguese *
- Albanian - Hmong - Punjabi
- Amharic - Hungarian - Romanian
- Arabic - Icelandic - Russian
- Armenian - Igbo - Serbian
- Bengali/Bangla - Indonesian - Slovak
- Bulgarian - Italian - Slovenian
- Burmese - Japanese - Somali
- Catalan - Javanese - Spanish *
- Chinese * - Khmer - Swahili
- Croatian - Korean - Swedish
- Czech - Kurdish - Tagalog
- Danish - Latvian/Lettish - Tamil
- Dutch - Lithuanian - Telugu
- Estonian - Macedonian - Thai
- Finnish - Malay - Turkish
- French * - Malayalam - Ukrainian
- Galician - Marathi - Urdu
- Georgian - Nepali - Vietnamese
- German - Norwegian - Yoruba
- Greek - Oromo - Zulu
- Hausa - Persian
- Hebrew - Polish
* Indicates the Distress Thermometer has been published in multiple versions of
the language.
"On World Mental Health Day and every day, we want to uphold the fact that
addressing emotional distress is a key part of patient care," said Robert W.
Carlson, MD, Chief Executive Officer, NCCN. "We hope our work helps reduce any
stigma or burden, enabling these important discussions around emotional
wellbeing."
Independent researchers recently published a study in Psycho-Oncology (
) examining 39 peer-reviewed articles validating the use of the NCCN Distress
Thermometer across 25 countries, stating: "This tool has proven to be an
effective means to support initiation of the conversation."
The translated NCCN Distress Thermometer can be found at
NCCN.org/distress-thermometer-translations (
).
Visit NCCN.org/global (
) to learn more about free cancer care resources for different regions and
languages, and join the conversation online with the hashtag #NCCNGlobal (
).
About the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network(R) (NCCN (
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3665862-1&h=2173588221&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nccn.org%2F&a=NCCN
)(R)) is a not-for-profit alliance of leading cancer centers (
) devoted to patient care, research, and education. NCCN is dedicated to
improving and facilitating quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer
care so all patients can live better lives. Visit NCCN.org (
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3665862-1&h=1786510834&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nccn.org%2F&a=NCCN.org
) for more information on the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology
(NCCN Guidelines (
)(R)) and other initiatives. Follow NCCN on Facebook @NCCNorg (
), Instagram @NCCNorg (
), and Twitter @NCCN (
).
Media Contact:
Rachel Darwin
267-622-6624
darwin@nccn.org
SOURCE: National Comprehensive Cancer Network
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