Study the Correlation Coefficient Spearman Brown on Cancer Patients Depending on the Test for the Beck Depression

Abstract

We will provide in this research a scientific study on patients with cancer of the Central Euphrates provinces (Samawah, Dhi Qar, Qadisiyah, Najaf, Karbala, Babil, Kut) and enrolled in the center of tumors to Morgan Specialist Hospital in the province of Babylon during the 2012 where it was applied Beck test for depression, and consisting of 21 questions shown in a simple and concise understood by the patient. Aim of this study is to test the possibility of the presence or absence of a relationship between depression and cancer. The questionnaire results were analyzed through the Spearman correlation coefficient analysis and correlation Brown record.

Keywords: depression, cancer, correlation analysis and Spearman correlation coefficient Brown.