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Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies Among the Parents of Hospitalized Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Patient During COVID-19 Pandemic in Bhubaneswar
Abstract
The present study is to identify the perceived stress and coping strategies among parents of hospitalized patient withacute lymphoblastic leukemia in the Covid pandemic situation at IMS & SUM hospital of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, A non-experimental which was descriptive in nature was selected for purpose to assess the perceived stress and coping strategies among parents of hospitalized patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the Covid pandemic situation at IMS and SUM hospital With a sample size of 100 Parents, Non-Probability purposive sampling technique was used for the study. Developed tools are social demographic data Performa, perceived stress scale and f-cope were used for the data collection. A questionnaire was used to collect data from parents who visited the hematology ward. The investigators observed that among all participants 82% having moderately stress and 18% having severe stress. The same participants were interviewed to know their coping abilities, the results reveals that majority (96%) participants having good coping strategies, (4%) participants having average coping strategies. Parent’s life is usually under lots of responsibility, at time it can also be under much pressure and stress. In this study the result we found that there is significant between stresses among parents of hospitalized patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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