Retracted: The Association among Cancer in Family History and Psychosocial Stress
Umar Waheed
RHC Rango, Tehsil Hazaro, District Attock, Pakistan.
Sajid Hussain
RHC Rango, Tehsil Hazaro, District Attock, Pakistan.
Nabila Khalid *
Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
Amber Salman
University Medical and Dental College, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Uzma Ali
Faisalabad Medical University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Fatima Maham Iqtidar
Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Aim: The purpose of this study is to look at the link among a family history of cancer, coping style, also emotional suffering.
Methods: The self-reporting questionnaire, coping style scale, also effect of occasion scale-revised were also used to assess 85 individuals through the family history of cancer also 74 normal patients.
Results: There have been substantial variations in nervousness, despair, cancer-exact distress, and psychological adjustment here between two groups of patients. Psychological discomfort (anxiety, sadness, and cancer-specific distress) was regarded as a negative coping style and the family history of cancer. In the family history and psychological discomfort, an undesirable coping style served as an intermediate.
Conclusion: People through the family history of cancer are now extra probable to have a negative coping style, which predisposes them to more severe psychological discomfort.
This paper has been retracted.