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    Prevalence of Depression ond Anxiety and Associated Factors Among Cancer Patient at Tikur Anbessa Hospital
    (2017-10) Meseret Mekonnen; Kassahun Habtamu
    Both depression and anxiety are the most common problems among cancer patients. But, there is information gap on the prevalence and associated factors of depression and anxiety among cancer patients in the study area. Having identified this gap, the current study aimed to assess prevalence and associated factors of depression and anxiety among cancer patients. This study is quantitative by design. Respondents of the study were selected using stratified random sampling. From the total population of the study site, a total of 384 cancer patients have participated in filling the questionnaire. Facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from March to May2017.Data collected using questionnaire were analyzed using bivariate and multivariable binary logistic regression analysis. The prevalence of depression among cancer patients was 63% (95%, CI: 58.3-67.7). And the prevalence of anxiety among cancer patients was56.8 %( 95%, CI: 51.8-61.7). All factors, age, religion, monthly income and occupation were found to be significantly associated with depression while sex, residence, marital status, education, and social support were not significantly associated. And age, sex, religion, monthly income, education and occupation were found to be significantly associated with anxiety; whereas marital status and residence were not significantly associated. All clinical factors, (treatment type, type of cancer, stage of cancer, durations of diagnosis) were found to be significantly associated with both depression and anxiety. Social support and pain belief perception of patients were significantly associated with depression and anxiety. The study recommends that counselors and oncologists need to work in close collaboration among themselves to better serve cancer patients and also awareness creation to the general public seem essential to bring attitudinal change. Key words: Prevalence, depression, anxiety, cancer, Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital
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    The Impacts of Mindfulness of parents and their Socio-demographic Factors on the Mental Health Condition of their Adolescents in Some Selected Secondary High Schools in Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2013-05) Negussie Azeze ; Kassahun Habtamu
    The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationships between mindful parenting, the socio-demographic factors of the parents and the mental health condition of the adolescents. In this study, parental mindfulness in the parenting practices was defined and measured .athe level of awareness, openness and non-judgementality and non reactwIty of the parents during parent-adolescent interactions as measured by the IEM-P scale. The socio-demographic factors of the parents were operationally defined and measured as the parents' age, religion, income per year in birr and level of education. The mental health condition of the adolescents also was defined and measured as the level of general psychological well-being of high school student adolescents as measured by the SRQ-24 scale. 350 participant adolescents, ages 13-19, from three (3) Sample high schools, chosen purposively were selected randomly and took the questionnaire consisting of the above mentioned two scales and the socio-demographic factors of their parents. Participants completed this questionnaire consisting of the Scales of IEM-P and SRQ-24 and their socio-demographic variables as well as of their parents. As hypothesized, results indicated that the level of mindfulness of parents has an impact on the mental health condition of the adolescents. The more mindful parents are, the less the level of the mental health problems of their adolescents .ar-e: It was also found that the parents' socio-demographic variables overall have significant effect in influencing their level of mindfulness in their parenting practices .Finally, the findings from the multiple regression implied that both the level of mindfulness of the parents and their education level are impacting or predicting significantly and inversely the level of the mental health problem of their adolescents. The posthocanalyses also indicated additional support for the relationships between the socio-demographic factors of the parents and their level of mindfulness. Findings of this study provided further support for the benefits of mindfulness' in parenting and added to the emerging body of research indicating the beneficial effects of mindfulness of parents in preventing and/ or alleviating ...)~ the mental health problems of their adolescents1f!mplications of these findings 't:r"C". include practical utility in both clinical and ri'on-clinical populations, using tN.1<- tJmindfu parenting skills to attenuate them to the psychological needs and ~ tunature of their adolescents during parenting practices, to enhance effective ~,parenting. The findings of this study offered support for the need of increasing mindful parenting, which is established to be highly beneficial for the adolescents' mental health through: enhancing mindful parenting practices and thereby increasing nonjudgmental acceptance, flexibility, more positive parent-adolescent relationship and responsiveness inside the dynamics of home and parenting as well as reducing parenting reactivity, parenting stress and other related problems like unhappy marriage life of the parents so that the psychological well-being and mental health condition of their adolescents can be safeguarded and/ or improved as a consequence.