Explore the Post Traumatic Growth among Cancer Patients at Selected Hospital Of Haryana

Abstract

The experience of being diagnosed with and treated for cancer is an extremely stressful experience for most individuals. In addition to commonly recognized negative effects such as posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), there may be positive personal developmental change, including posttraumatic growth (PTG). The purpose of the study was to explore the post traumatic growth among cancer patients. The study involved 100 cancer patients. The data was collected by using standardized tool-post traumatic growth inventory (PTGI) which consists of five subscales. Participants reported high spiritual strength. Only few of the patients were able to develop new possibilities which suggest that they may be beginning to make choices in a more conscious manner. The associations of post traumatic growth of cancer patients with selected demographic variables suggest that relating to others was statistically associated with gender (4.58) and marital status (4.70), spiritual strength was found to be associated with residence (4.43), religious activities (9.29) and importance of religious activities (32.74). Appreciation of life was found dependent on occupation (5.88) and annual household income (10.92) at 0.05 level of significance and the association of post traumatic growth with selected clinical variables suggest that new possibilities was statistically significant with duration of diagnosis (7.82), spiritual strength with duration of diagnosis (.95) and appreciation of life with duration of diagnosis (9.06) at 0.05 level of significance. Therefore it was concluded that majority of cancer patients after diagnosis with cancer were able to reevaluate their spiritual strength.