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STRESS OF CARDIAC PATIENTS AS FUNCTION OF GENDER AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS
By: Md. Bulbul Ahmed, Md. Shariful Islam, Shiri Farhana
Key Words: Stress, Cardiac Patients, Gender, Socio-economic Status
JLES-Vol-17-No-P-13-17, December 2022.
AbstractThe study conducted an empirical investigation on stress of cardiac patients as function of gender and socio-economic status. A total of 180 respondents were selected randomly for this study from various medical college and hospitals of Rajshahi and Rangpur division. A 2×3 factorial design involving two level of gender (male/female) and three level of socio-economic status (high/middle/low) were used. The result showed that female cardiac patients expressed significantly higher stress as compared to male cardiac patients. It also found that patients with low socio-economic expressed significantly higher stress as compared to high and middle socio-economic cardiac patients. Again result showed that there was a significant interaction effect of gender and socio-economic status on the stress of cardiac patients.
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Md. Bulbul Ahmed, Md. Shariful Islam, Shiri Farhana
STRESS OF CARDIAC PATIENTS AS FUNCTION OF GENDER AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS
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