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| Natura: | Recurso digital |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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2025
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15082143 |
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- <p><strong><em><span>Abstract</span></em></strong></p> <p><strong><em><span>Background:</span></em></strong><em><span> Pakistan's high breast cancer incidence is due to financial constraints, leading to delayed diagnoses and treatment. This study assesses psychological well-being and associated factors in Pakistan. <strong>Methodology:</strong> A cross-sectional study design was used from April to July 2023 in the two tertiary care hospitals in Khyber Pukhtankhwa, Pakistan, with a sample size of 132 and purposive sampling technique. Three valid and reliable questionnaires were used for data collection, i.e.<span> </span>the major depressive inventory for depression, and the perceived stress inventory for stress. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, and the chi-square test. <strong>Results:</strong> The overall level of Depression among the participants were (94.6%) high Depression, followed by moderate depression level (5.4%). There were significant difference the groups of age (p-0.002), and marital status (p-0.000), and education (p-0.005) while there were no significant difference between the groups of employment status (p-0.441) and co-morbid (p-0.471). The overall stress level were having moderate stress n-79 (60.8%), and the remain patients were having severe stress n-51 (39.2%).<span> </span>There were significant difference between the groups of age groups (p-0.004), education (p-0.000), and co-morbid (p-0.042), while no difference between the group of marital status (p-0.289), and employment status (p-509). <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Breast cancer patients experience moderate to severe anxiety, with high prevalence in the 20-30 age group, married, primary educated, housewife, and without comorbidity, and high to moderate stress levels with high prevalence among 31-40 years, married status, primary education, housewife and having no co-morbid were having high to moderate level of stress.</span></em></p>