Anxiety as Predictor of Negative Psychological Well-Being on Chemotherapy Patients of Breast Cancer

Abstract

Breast cancer is the second highest cause of death in women after cervical cancer. The most commonly used therapy for breast cancer is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy has side effects on physical and psychological that may affect the psychological well-being of patient. Anxiety is psychological side effect that is most felt by chemotherapy patients. This study aimed to understand correlation between anxiety and psychological well-being of chemotherapy patients of breast cancer. This study used observational analytic method with cross sectional approach. Population in this research was chemotherapy patients of breast cancer in 2-6 session in Army Hospital Lv.II of dr.Soepraoen Malang. Total sample in this study was 62 people that taken by using stratified random sampling technique based on chemotherapy session of patients. Data collection was conducted by using questionnaires. Data were analyzed by using univariate and bivariate analysis. The bivariate analysis result by using lambda correlation test shown that there was negative correlation between anxiety and psychological well-being with a value of p=0.050 and r=-0.200. The conclusion of this study stated that the higher the anxiety, the higher probability of negative psychological well-being.