HUBUNGAN MEKANISME KOPING DENGAN TINGKAT ANSIETAS PADA KLIEN DENGAN PENYAKIT KANKER DI RSPAD GATOT SOEBROTO

Abstract

Cancer is a disease caused by abnormal growth of cells of the body  tissues will be change the cancer cells. Patients who
get cancer will get anxiety or commonly called 'kecemasan'. Anxiety is a feeling of unidentified fear and is not supported by
the situation. Anxiety can be handle with coping mechanisms. Coping mechanism have two type, they are namely adaptive
coping mechanism and maladaptive coping mechanism. This research using descriptive method with cross sectional
approach and chi square test  to find corellation between coping mechanism and anxiety level on clients with cancer at 
RSPAD Gatot Soebroto with 66 respondents. The results of research was held on August 2017 there were (51.5%) patients
with maladaptive coping mechanisms and (48.5%) patients with adaptive coping mechanisms. Patients with low anxiety 
were  (16.7%), middle anxiety (62.1%) and heavy anxiety (21.2%) with p-values 0.735 and 0.537, α = 0.05 OR = 0.652
(95% CI 0.171-2.485) and OR = 1.704 (95% CI 0.500-5.800). The conclusion of this research, it is not found the
significant correlation between coping mechanisms and anxiety level on clients with cancer at RSPAD Gatot Soebroto .
Based on the result of this research showing that is good coping mechanism can be reduce anxiety level on cancer patients.
 
Keywords : Cancer, Anxiety, Coping Mechanism