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The present research investigated the life stresses reported by the out-door female breast cancer and general medicine patients. The ex post facto research design was used. The sample consisted of 128 Pakistani adult female patients (64 breast cancer and 64 general medicine patients) from various hospitals of Lahore. A checklist of Life stresses and Marital Stresses Inventory (Urdu Translation) was administered to the patients. A 14-item Hospital. Anxiety Depression Scale (Urdu Version) was also administered to the patients. Data analysis suggests that the cancer patients exhibited more depression than the vneral medicine patients (z=2.43; .N=12ST0.05). Furthenrnore, the two groups did not differ in terms of their general life stress (z=1.16., N=128;p0.05)., and marital stress (z-0.63;N=128;p>0.05). Low positive correlation was found between life stress and depression 0=0.26); marital stress and depression (-4.20); and overall total stress and depression 0-0_11), in breast cancer patients,
Dr.Yasmin N. Farooqi . (2000) Life Stresses As Reported By Breast-Cancer And General Medicine Patients , Journal of Research ( Humanities), Vol XXXIV, Issue 1 .
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