Page No:112-118
S.N. Ghosh and Sagar Sharma
Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla Panjab University, Chandigarh.
19-114-120Sixty-five non-selected peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and bronchial asthma (BA) patients were matched with 65 surgical/orthopaedic patients were studied in the present investigation. Psychological assessment was done by Hindi version of Spielberger’s T-Anxiety Scale of STAI and T-Anger Scale of STAXI. The results of one-way ANOVA indicate that there was a significant difference among the PUD and BA patient groups and surgical/orthopaedic controls in terms of trait anxiety and trait anger (P < .001). The post-hoc comparison (Duncan’s test) revealed that both the PUD and BA patient groups differed significantly from their patient control on trait anxiety. However, only BA patients differed significantly from surgical/orthopaedic controls on trait anger. The findings highlight the disease-specific association of negative emotion (t-anxiety and t-anger) in PUD and BA patients. The results are discussed in the light of available literature