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Intervention of Humanized Nursing Accompaniment and Quality of Life in People with Advanced Cancer

Aquichan; 19 (3), 2019
ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the effect of an intervention of humanized nursing accompaniment, at home, on the quality of life of people with advanced cancer and of their family caregivers. Method: Pre-experimental study with pre- and post-intervention measurements. The intervention included home vis...

Quality of Life of Patients with Advanced Cancer in Palliative Therapy and in Palliative Care

Aquichan; 19 (3), 2019
ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer in palliative therapy and in palliative care. Materials and Methods: Quantitative, observational, cross-sectional, and analytic study conducted in a teaching hospital in Paraná, Brazil, from January to June 2018, with...

Caring ability, burden, stress and coping of family caregivers of people in cancer treatment

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the association between the caring ability and the burden, stress and coping of family caregivers of people in cancer treatment. Method: A cross-sectional study with 132 family caregivers. The following instruments were applied: a characterization instrument, the Caring A...

Incidence of pressure injury in an oncological intensive care unit

ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the incidence of pressure injury in cancer patients of an intensive care unit. Method: A longitudinal study with 105 patients admitted to an oncological intensive care unit. The incidence rate was calculated as the number of events per 100 patient-days. Cumulative inc...

Educational technology for fatigue management related to antineoplastic chemotherapy

ABSTRACT Objective: To construct and validate an educational technology (ET) on fatigue and non-pharmacological strategies for the management of this symptom in people with cancer undergoing outpatient antineoplastic chemotherapy. Method: This is a methodological study composed of three stages: 1) elab...

Religious/spiritual coping and spiritual distress in people with cancer

ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the relation between the presence of spiritual distress and use of RSC and sociodemographic, clinical and religious/spiritual variables in people with cancer. Method: Cross-sectional study conducted in an association for support to people with cancer. The data obtaine...

Characteristics of caregivers submitted to music therapy after the death of loved ones

ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the characteristics of bereaved caregivers submitted to post-loss music therapy. Method: This is a cross-sectional database from a randomized clinical trial that performed music therapy for caregivers who lost their loved ones to cancer. The following variables were used...

Da hospitalização ao luto: significados atribuídos por pais aos relacionamentos com profissionais em oncologia pediátrica

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 53 (), 2019
RESUMO Objetivo Compreender os significados atribuídos por pais enlutados aos relacionamentos com profissionais da saúde durante a hospitalização do filho em final de vida. Método Estudo qualitativo-interpretativo, baseado na hermenêutica. Os dados foram coletados a partir de entrevistas com pais...

Diagnóstico do câncer infantojuvenil: o caminho percorrido pelas famílias

Objetivo: Analisar a trajetória percorrida pelas crianças e adolescentes da suspeição à confirmação diagnóstica de câncer. Métodos: Pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolvida em 2017, com entrevistas semiestruturadas junto a 19 familiares cuidadores de crianças e adolescentes com câncer, cujos dados ...