Anxiety Among Cancer Patients at Selected Hospital of Haryana

Abstract

The experience of being diagnosed with and treated for cancer is extremely stressful for most individuals involving a series of threats during diagnosis and treatment. The purpose of the study was to explore the anxiety among cancer patients. The study involved 100 cancer patients. Data was collected by using standardised tool i.e. state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI). Participants reported moderate low state-trait anxiety (36% and 34% of cancer patients were in moderate low anxiety level in state-trait anxiety inventory respectively). The mean score for state-trait anxiety inventory was 92.74 with S.D ± 29.94 and mean percent as 57.96. The state anxiety was found associated with demographic variables that were: religious activities (34.15) and importance of religious activities (21.33) and clinical variables were found to be associated with duration of diagnosis (26.23) and stage of disease (27.02) at 0.05 level of significance. The trait anxiety was found associated with demographic variables (14.13), marital status (10.90); clinical variables were found to be associated with diagnosis (42.89), duration of diagnosis (27.64) and stage of disease (32.61) at 0.05 level of significance. So, it can be concluded that as duration and stage of disease increases stress level decreases and it was also affected by gender, marital status, diagnosis, duration and stage of disease.