Physical and mental aspects of self care in cancer patients referred to Shiraz Namazi Hospital Chemotherapy
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Being diagnosed with cancer can be an overwhelming experience for people with cancer and their loved ones. Both the disease and it, treatment causes a variety of symptoms.This research was done with the overall purpose of assessing cancer patients knowledge about different aspects of self care. Among 134 cases 75.4% was woman (101 cases) and 24.6% was men (33cases). The mean age of patients was 46.8years with a range from 16 to 79 years. The most frequent incidence was in the illiterate population with 47.8% (64cases) and only 8.2% (11cases) had university educations. 64.9% (78 cases) was housewives and only 2.2% (3 cases) was students. The married subjects was 84.3% (113 cases) and 47.8% (69 cases) and been diagnosed with breast cancer. The following visit varied from 1 to 22 times. 27.6% (37cases) and single chemotherapy program and 72.4% (97cases) had combined chemotherapy. 82.1% (110cases) had done periodic test for following complications of treatment. From information a bout its importance. 52.2% (70cases) had low level of knowledge about chemotherapy complications. 53% (71 cases) did not have certain sources to take information and in 37.3% (50cases) source of information was physician. Physical Care score was about 3 to 16 with mean 8.8 and psychological care score was about 6 to 20 with mean 15. There was a statistically significant result between physical care score and education (p<0.004) and following visits (p<0.001) According to this research results cancer patient education about self care is very important and also these results emphasize on nurses attention to these programs.
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Journal of Mashhad School of Nursing and Midwifery, Volume:10 Issue: 25, 2011
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47
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