Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Chemotherapy’s Patient with Breast Cancer

Sri Eka Wahyuni, Yenni Epriyanta Br Sitepu, Wardiyah Daulay

2018

Abstract

Breast cancer is increases every year and very dangerous because it can cause death. Handling breast cancer can be done with chemotherapy. But chemotherapy treatment takes a long time with various side effects of chemotherapy accompanied by side effects from the cancer itself so that patients will experience psychological problems that can make the patient want to stop the treatment. This study aims to describe the stress levels, anxiety and depression of breast cancer patients breast cancer with chemotherapy. This research is descriptive. The sample of this study were breast cancer patients with chemotherapy in RSUP Haji Adam Malik Medan. Total of 41 patients taken by total sampling. The instrument used was DASS 42. The results of this study showed that 73.2% did not experience stress, 58.5% did not experience anxiety, 80.5% do not experience depression. It is recommended to the health service team to involve families in providing appropriate interventions to breast cancer patients who experience stress, anxiety and depression so as to reduce treatment time, save costs and increase productivity.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wahyuni S., Sitepu Y. and Daulay W. (2018). Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Chemotherapy’s Patient with Breast Cancer.In Proceedings of the 2nd Syiah Kuala International Conference on Medicine and Health Sciences - Volume 1: SKIC-MHS, ISBN 978-989-758-438-1, pages 241-248. DOI: 10.5220/0008791402410248

in Bibtex Style

@conference{skic-mhs18,
author={Sri Eka Wahyuni and Yenni Epriyanta Br Sitepu and Wardiyah Daulay},
title={Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Chemotherapy’s Patient with Breast Cancer},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd Syiah Kuala International Conference on Medicine and Health Sciences - Volume 1: SKIC-MHS,},
year={2018},
pages={241-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008791402410248},
isbn={978-989-758-438-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd Syiah Kuala International Conference on Medicine and Health Sciences - Volume 1: SKIC-MHS,
TI - Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Chemotherapy’s Patient with Breast Cancer
SN - 978-989-758-438-1
AU - Wahyuni S.
AU - Sitepu Y.
AU - Daulay W.
PY - 2018
SP - 241
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0008791402410248