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A Study to Assess the Level of Anxiety among Tuberculosis Patients Admitted in Government Hospital, Sasaram, Rohtas-District Bihar

2019; Rekha Patel; Volume: Volume-3; Issue: Issue-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.31142/ijtsrd21700

2456-6470

K Maheshwaran., Senthil Thirusangu, Deepak Kumar Singh,

Diverse Scientific Research Studies

Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity around the world, infecting approximately 8 billion people, with an annual death rate of close to 1 million.India shares almost a third of this global tuberculosis burden.Nearly 2 million incidents cases and half a million deaths annually, tuberculosis is certainly an enormous public health problem in this country.Anxiety is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure.In our study anxiety is a condition in which an individual feels ashamed or humiliated at various social setting.Patients with anxiety usually avoid the situations due to their excessive concerns; they commonly isolated themselves from the social interaction.Non experimental survey was conducted in Government Hospital, Sasaram, Rohtas-District Bihar.30 tuberculosis patients were selected by using Purposive sampling technique.Five point rating scale is used to assess the level of anxiety among the tuberculosis patients admitted in Government Hospital, Sasaram, Rohtas-District Bihar The collected data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.The result of the study shows that 20 (66.7%) the tuberculosis patients had moderate level of anxiety, 10 (33.3%) patients had severe level of anxiety & no one had mild level of anxiety.The study concluded that majority of tuberculosis patient admitted in Government Hospital, Sasaram, Rohtas-District Bihar has moderate level of anxiety (66.7%) and severe level of anxiety (33.3%).In this study, the results reveal that there is association between the demographic variables like age in year, gender, marital status, religion, area of residence and educational status with the level of anxiety.