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Among such factors, resilience is considered to be a psychological adaptive capacity resulting from complex genetic, epigenetic, psychological, and environmental influences. For that reason, we investigated resilience as a factor of psychological distress experience among patients with neuro-oncological disease. To assess distress among patients with neuro-oncological diseases, we performed electronic psycho-oncological screening in the Department of Neurosurgery at T\u00fcbingen University Hospital (n = 100) following tumor surgery (T0) using the Resilience Scale 13, the Hornheider Screening Instrument, the Patient Health Questionnaire-2, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-2, and the Distress Thermometer, all administered on tablets. Follow-up was done 6 months after (T1). The distress of patients with neuro-oncological disease decreased significantly after 6 months (p &lt; 0.01). Most patients (87%) showed moderate to high resilience. Although significant correlations with distress are measurable at the T0 time point (\u03c1 = \u22120.318 **, p &lt; 0.01), no significant correlations were observed at T1. Thus, resilience seems to significantly impact distress in the acute phase of the neuro-oncological disease. For clinical practice, our findings suggest that resilience-focused screening can provide useful information about patients at risk of experiencing distress.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/curroncol29120776","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,15]],"date-time":"2022-12-15T03:43:49Z","timestamp":1671075829000},"page":"9875-9883","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Resilience as a Factor Influencing Psychological Distress Experience in Patients with Neuro-Oncological Disease"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"29","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9395-7404","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jan","family":"Ilgen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, T\u00fcbingen University Hospital, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2824-3720","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mirjam","family":"Renovanz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology and Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls University of T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"},{"name":"Center for Neuro-Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center T\u00fcbingen-Stuttgart, T\u00fcbingen University Hospital, Eberhard Karls University of T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, T\u00fcbingen University Hospital, Eberhard Karls University T\u00fcbingen, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andreas","family":"Stengel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, T\u00fcbingen University Hospital, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"},{"name":"Psycho-Oncology Section, Comprehensive Cancer Center T\u00fcbingen-Stuttgart, T\u00fcbingen University Hospital, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"},{"name":"Charit\u00e9 Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Charit\u00e9-Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1659-4440","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stephan","family":"Zipfel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, T\u00fcbingen University Hospital, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6569-921X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Norbert","family":"Sch\u00e4ffeler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, T\u00fcbingen University Hospital, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"},{"name":"Psycho-Oncology Section, Comprehensive Cancer Center T\u00fcbingen-Stuttgart, T\u00fcbingen University Hospital, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"208","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyt.2019.00208","article-title":"Resilience in Cancer Patients","volume":"10","author":"Seiler","year":"2019","journal-title":"Front. 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