Prevalence of trait anxiety in patients with cancer

Abstract

Cancer as a life threatening disease has a huge burden on lives of people with cancer and also on their families. Persons with cancer will find that their feelings of anxiety increase or decrease at different times. In this study we reported the Trait Anxiety based on the last 20 questions of State-Trait anxiety Inventory. This study investigated trait (hidden) anxiety among 250 patients with the diagnosis of cancer in Kashan. Neither sex, age nor cancer duration was related with trait anxiety in the study population. The most common type of anxiety in the patients was moderate type. The cancer type that requires more invasive treatments can be categorized as anxiety-causing cancer types and a great attention should be paid for this fact. © IDOSI Publications, 2013