Emotional distress was associated with pain, fatigue,
depression, anxiety, and the number of symptoms in
this study. A significant association between psychological
distress and cancer pain (Badr, Basen-Engquist,
Carmack Taylor, & de Moor, 2006) and a positive
association between psychological distress and posttreatment
fatigue (Norton et al., 2004) have been reported.
That emotional distress was associated with
depression and anxiety over time was not surprising in