psychological status during covid-19 pandemic on the patients with cancer

background: coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) emerged in december 2019 in china and exhibited as a highly contagious viral infection which led to a high level of mortality and morbidity. it is followed by a great deal of complications, such as serious psychological disorders. there are a few studies evaluating the psychological status of covid-19 on the patients with cancer in iran.method: this was a cross-sectional study carried out on 94 patients with cancer who referred to haft-e-tir hospital for radiotherapy and chemotherapy from 20 april to 15 may, 2020. the data collection tool was the impact of events scale-revised (ies-r).results: the prevalence of anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder based on past psychiatric history in the patients was 11.7% and 2.1%, respectively. the results revealed that age was significantly related to avoidance dimension score (b = -0. 209, 95% ci: -0.084 to - 0.335). regarding hyper arousal dimension score, the results were as follows: rural residency (b = 5.091, 95% ci: 0.610 to 9.573), past psychiatric history (pph) (b = 8.312, 95% ci: 4.314 to 12.310), and radiotherapy (b = -2.976, 95% ci: -5.878 to -0.074) had a statistically significant relationship with the hyper arousal dimension score.conclusion: the patients with cancer had a severe form of covid-19. individuals with cancer who had a previous psychiatric history are more vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after trauma.