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Learn how to test a document’s readability in your word processor (go to help and search for readability). Under this week’s assignments find “Literacy Example.” Run a readability test (Flesch-Kincaid reading level) on this and report back what you found. Rewrite the example until it tests at a readability level of grade 7. What issues did you have in doing this?
Depression is a comorbid disabling syndrome that affects approximately 15% to 25% of cancer
patients. Depression is believed to affect men and women with cancer equally, and genderrelated differences in prevalence and severity have not been adequately evaluated. Individuals
and families who face a diagnosis of cancer will experience varying levels of stress and
emotional upset. Depression in patients with cancer not only affects the patients themselves but
also has a major negative impact on their families. A survey in England of women with breast
cancer showed that among several factors, depression was the strongest predictor of emotional
and behavioral problems in their children. Fear of death, disruption of life plans, changes in body
image and self-esteem, changes in social role and lifestyle, and financial and legal concerns are
significant issues in the life of any person with cancer, yet serious depression or anxiety is not
experienced by everyone who is diagnosed with cancer.
Just as patients require ongoing evaluation for depression and anxiety throughout their course of
treatment, so do family caregivers. In a study of family caregivers of patients in the palliative
phase of illness, both male and female caregivers experienced significantly more anxiety than
normal samples.
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patients. Depression is believed to affect men and women with cancer equally, and genderrelated differences in prevalence and severity have not been adequately evaluated. Individuals
and families who face a diagnosis of cancer will experience varying levels of stress and
emotional upset. Depression in patients with cancer not only affects the patients themselves but
also has a major negative impact on their families. A survey in England of women with breast
cancer showed that among several factors, depression was the strongest predictor of emotional
and behavioral problems in their children. Fear of death, disruption of life plans, changes in body
image and self-esteem, changes in social role and lifestyle, and financial and legal concerns are
significant issues in the life of any person with cancer, yet serious depression or anxiety is not
experienced by everyone who is diagnosed with cancer.
Just as patients require ongoing evaluation for depression and anxiety throughout their course of
treatment, so do family caregivers. In a study of family caregivers of patients in the palliative
phase of illness, both male and female caregivers experienced significantly more anxiety than
normal samples.
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