Prevalence of psychological pain in comparison with physiological pain due to anxiety level in oncology children

As it is stated before in several studies that, health is a whole thing adding mental and physical health, such as the physical treatment of cancer is incomplete without treating the psychological causes. Oncology children are not mature enough to deal with it and gets anxiety and depression as the common psychological problems while having the treatment, where the anxiety is expected to increase the pain of psychological aspect rather than physical and makes the treatment & management of oncology difficult for the doctors. To understand this relationship of anxiety with psychological & physiological pain, this study was aimed to be conducted on a sample of 80 Oncology children, age ranging from teens to adolescent where half were girls & half boys. “Screen for child anxiety related disorders (SCARED)”, “McGill pain questionnaire” & “Pain catastrophizing scale (PCS)” were used on the subjects. A correlationmethod was used in the present study. Result of the study showed that the anxiety correlates with both the type of pain and the proposed null-hypothesis was rejected.