Assess the effectiveness of Onco-Mental health programme on the management of psychosocial problems among breast cancer survivors at Tertiary care hospital Chennai-03A

Depression and anxiety and stress are the most common disorders that can be present in breast cancer patients through their illness from diagnosis to the end of the disease and Quality of Life (QOL) is impaired through their course of diagnosis, staging, and treatments consequences which may result in physiological effect of cancer. METHODOLOGY: A Quasi experimental design with 60 breast cancer patients were nonrandomly selected by purposive sampling method and divided into experimental and control groups, 30 participants in each group. The study was conducted in Rajiv Gandhi government general hospital, Chennai and the data were collected using a Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21 (DASS21) questionnaire. In experimental group, the researcher assessed the level of depression, anxiety, stress in the pre-test and Onco-mental health programme was given to the breast cancer patients daily for about 40-45mins for 4 weeks and the post-test assessment was done using the same questionnaire, and in control group pre-test and post-test was collected using the same tool without any intervention. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. RESULT: The study result shows that of Onco-mental health programme regarding the management of psychosocial problems among breast cancer client’s pre test score of depression (76.67%) anxiety (83.33%) stress (56.67%) and post test score of depression (56.67%) anxiety (10%) stress (13.33%), the mean difference between pre test and post test score was depression (20%) anxiety (73.33%) stress (43.34%) thus breast cancer clients got reduction in depression, anxiety and stress after administration of Onco-mental health programme at (p=0.001). CONCLUSION: The study concluded that Onco-mental health programmee was effective in reducing the level depression, anxiety, and stress among breast cancer patients during the time of admission for reduces the psychosocial problems and improving the quality of life