PALLIATIVE CARE NEEDS OF CANCER PATIENTS  AT ONCOLOGY CENTER – THAI NGUYEN NATIONAL HOSPITAL

Vũ Bích Huyền; Phạm Thị Hằng; Đoàn Thị Thùy; Vi Trần Doanh; Trần Bảo Ngọc

doi:10.34238/tnu-jst.6461

PALLIATIVE CARE NEEDS OF CANCER PATIENTS AT ONCOLOGY CENTER – THAI NGUYEN NATIONAL HOSPITAL

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Received: 07/09/22 Revised: 30/01/23 Published: 31/01/23

Authors

1. Vu Bich Huyen , Thai Nguyen National Hospital
2. Pham Thi Hang, Thai Nguyen National Hospital
3. Doan Thi Thuy, Thai Nguyen National Hospital
4. Vi Tran Doanh, Thai Nguyen National Hospital
5. Tran Bao Ngoc, TNU – University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Abstract

Our study was conducted with the aim of describing the palliative care needs of cancer patients at Thai Nguyen Oncology Center in 2021. Applying cross-sectional descriptive study design on 190 patients are being treated at Thai Nguyen Oncology Center from January 2021 to August 2021. The results of the study show that the highest percentage of patients with support needs is the subsection of the need for medical information support (86.8%), followed by the need for financial support (74.2%); physical support (72.1%); psychological/spiritual support (34.2%); communication support (26.3%); support daily activities (20%) and finally need to support personal autonomy (19.5%). From there, the research team came to the conclusion: The need for palliative care of cancer patients focuses more on the need for medical information support and the need for financial support.

Keywords

Cancer; Palliative care; Patient; Need; Thai Nguyen Oncology Center

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34238/tnu-jst.6461

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