A Study on Stress and Anxiety in Relation to Asthma

By : Rajeka Fardosh Tany, Asoke Kumar Saha

Page No: 117-126

Abstract
The present study has examined the stress and anxiety in relation to asthma. Data were collected from 140 adults in which 70 were asthma patients, and 70 people who don’t have history of asthama complaint. Samples were selected from Dhaka city by using purposive sampling technique. The Life Stress Questionnaire (Cohen, 1999) , translated Bangla version by Fahim (2001) was used to measure the individuals stress and an Anxiety Scale for Bangladeshi population was developed by Deeba & Begum (2004) was used to measure anxiety of the same respondents. Simple regression and correlation analysis indicated that stress and anxiety had significant positive correlation with asthma. Asthma has been found as the most important predictor which explained 47.7% variance of stress and 40.8% variance of anxiety of respondents.

Authors :
Rajeka Fardosh Tany : Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Asoke Kumar Saha : Professor, Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh