Abstract
The present study aimed to explore quality of life and death anxiety
among patients with cancer and non-cancer participants. Between group
research design was used in the present research. This study was
conducted on 105 patients with cancer and 95 non-cancer participants.
Data of patients with cancer was collected from the outdoor as well as
indoor departments of Oncology of 3 teaching hospitals and 2 private
hospitals and 3 private clinics. The patient’s population was taken after
complete diagnosis by respective doctors while the non-cancer
participants were taken from the community. Death anxiety was
measured through the Leming fear of death anxiety scale, (Leming, 1980)
and Quality of life was assessed with the help of World Health
Organization quality of life scale- BREF (World Health Organization,
1991). Cancer and non-cancer participants groups were matched on age,
gender, education, socioeconomic status, occupation, and religion. The
results of t-test indicated that cancer patients had higher level of death
anxiety while significance difference between the Quality of life among
patients with cancer and non-cancer participants except social
relationships. Using one way ANOVA, significant differences of death
anxiety were found on the basis of level of religiosity among Patients
with cancer and non-cancer participants were found in which patients
with cancer had greater level of death anxiety as compared to non-cancer
participants while opposite was true for level of religiosity. The results
were discussed in the light of previous literature and theoretical
background.
Faiza Safdar, Nosheen K. Rahman. (2016) QUALITY OF LIFE AND DEATH ANXIETY AMONG PATIENTS WITH CANCER AND NONCANCER PARTICIPANTS, Pakistan Journal of Professional Psychology Research and Practice, Volume 7 No.1, Volume 7.
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