Hernández MD, Pérez GYL, Guerra MVM, Treto GÁ, Grau ÁR

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: head and neck cancer is a suffering that can also hurt face and voice, vital functions such as food ingestion, swallowing and breathing. Negative psychological situations like anxiety and experiences are related to these harms.
Objective: To determine the characteristics of the anxiety on patients suffering from head and neck cancer in the diagnostic and control stage of the disease.
Methods: A quantity research prototype with a non experimental design and a correlation study was chosen. The sample was formed by fifteen newly diagnosed patients previous to receive the treatment and other fifteen patients in the disease control stage. Psychological interview, feature – state anxiety self evaluation, ten words learning, pathologic anxiety scale, completing phrases test and the experiences self report. To analyze data there were used Fisher test, Mann Whitney test and Kendall tau-c Non Parametric Correlation.
Results: The obtained results allowed characterizing the presence of high anxiety on newly diagnosed patients and mid stage of anxiety on patients in the control stage of the disease and as feature on both groups mid anxiety.
Conclusions: Situational anxiety is the general tendency on the studied patients on both stages.

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