Volume : 4, Issue : 3, March - 2015

Cancer Fatalism and Psychological Well Being Among Cancer Patients

Krishnamurthy. V. S, Nasreentaj

Abstract :

<p>&lt;p&gt;There is much interest in whether belief system influences on Psychological condition of patients, the present study&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div&gt;aims to study the influence of cancer fatalism on Psychological well being among cancer patients. By using descriptive&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;research design data is obtained from 80 cancer patients from various hospitals in and around Bangalore city by using&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Cancer fatalism scale and Psychological well being scale. The findings indicate that there is a significant impact of fatalism on Psychological well&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;being of cancer patients, in which Patients with low degree of cancer fatalism have shown a low level of Psychological well being and patients&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;with high degree of cancer fatalism have shown higher level of Psychological well being.&lt;/div&gt;</p>