ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Being a cervical cancer patient has many psychological impacts for the patient. Anxiety about the health condition can affect patient reluctance to seek examination and further treatment. This anxiety can be managed by health personnel, with one approach being logotherapy. This study examined the effect of logo-therapy on anxiety scores of cervical cancer patients using the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS). It was a quasiexperimental, pre-and post-test study, with a control group design, in which 42 patients were involved. The experimental group received logo-therapy. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyse the post-test differences between the two groups, with covariates of the pretest. The results showed that the average anxiety of the experimental group reduced from 41.03 to 34.19, while that of the control group changed from 40.77 to 36.48. At alpha 0.05, the difference of anxiety in the treated group was significant (p value of 0.0407). The results of the statistical tests show that there is a significant difference in anxiety scores in the group receiving logo-therapy compared with the control group.
