The Relationship Between Symptom Burden and Death Anxiety in Ovarian Cancer Patients: The Mediating Effect of Alexithymia

We should focus on patients who are younger, unmarried or divorced/widowed, have lower educational attainment, are at a later stage of tumor progression, and have a shorter disease course. Symptom burden influences death anxiety in ovarian cancer patients by affecting alexithymia. Focusing solely on symptom burden without addressing patients' alexithymia may not be sufficient to reduce their death anxiety.