“The Interaction Effects of Age of the Patients and Stages of the Disease on Hope among Hematology Cancer Patients: A two-Way Analysis of Varriance”

Abstract

Introduction: Whenever the patient is being diagnosed with cancer they lose their hope. Hope is very vital component for uplifting the psychological health. There are few researches found on interaction effect of age and stages of the cancer disease on hope of the hematology cancer patients. The present study focused on to explore the interaction effects of age of cancer patients and stages of the cancer disease on hope among hematology cancer patients.
 Methods: Two-way factorial research design has been used for the present study. The purposive sampling data was collected, Stage I and Stage II hematology cancer patients (age group 21-35 years and 50- 75 years) were included as sample size. To measure hope- Adult Hope Scale was used. For data analysis, SPSS version 20 was used for descriptive statistics, t-test, and two-way ANOVA.
 Result: A two-way ANOVA was run on a sample of 71 hematology cancer patients to examine the effect of age groups and stage category of the disease on level of hope in hematology cancer patients, F (1,67) = 12.90, p = .001. Simple main effects analysis showed that age groups have statistically significant effect on level of hope (p = .000). Simple main effects analysis showed that stage category of cancer have a significant effect on level of hope (p = .000).
 Conclusion: It is indicated that similar level of hope was found at stage I in both the age groups but there was declined in level of hope in stage II, whereas older aged patients have shown better level of hope.