Psychological distress, decision-making, and health behaviors among prostate cancer survivors with urinary incontinence: A scale- and symptom-level network analysis
Yan He, Zhiguang Huang, Jiayu Gong, Zunguang Bai, Wenfeng He, Liling Zhang · 2026
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Yan He and colleagues map how depression, anxiety, decision-making, and health habits lock together in prostate cancer survivors living with urinary incontinence. Their 2026 cross-sectional network study surveys 251 survivors at a large Chinese referral hospital between October 2025 and February 2026. Online forms fed both scale-level and symptom-level network models.
Anxiety and depression sat at the network's center, forming a tight mental cluster with loneliness. Shared decision making linked strongly to decisional conflict, while incontinence strain tied in a middling way to workout habits and weakly to mood. Inside the depression network, thoughts of self-harm and low energy were the most central symptoms. Hard-to-control worry anchored the anxiety side. The authors argue these core nodes deserve first attention in follow-up checks, and they call for long-term work to test whether central symptoms drive the rest.
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| CREATOR | Yan He, Zhiguang Huang, Jiayu Gong, Zunguang Bai, Wenfeng He, Liling Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45666 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |