Mental health among cancer patients in two stages

The paper deals with the differentiation of mental health level between first stage and advance stages ofcancer patients, including inpatients and outpatients of Bharat Cancer Hospital and Research Institute ofOncology, Mysore, India (2006).The aim of the study was to assess mental health among two stages ofcancer patients. The data were collected from 30 first stage cancer patients and 30 fourth stages (advanced)of cancer patients and who included male and female, married and unmarried patients available. GeneralHealth Questionnaire (GHQ28) including four subscales (Somatic symptoms, Anxiety, Social dysfunctionand Depression) was used to assess mental health. The results revealed that there was significant differencein all subscales between first stage and advanced stage of cancer patients. present study establish that thecancer stage position can be influence of cancer patients’ mental health, in other word the mental health ofcancer patients depending to stage of cancer, can be alter.

کلیدواژه ها:

Psycho- oncology literacy ، Mental health ، Cancer patients of first stage and advanced stage