Evaluating the Self-Care Agency of Patients Receiving Outpatient Chemotherapy
Evaluating the Self-Care Agency of Patients Receiving Outpatient Chemotherapy
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DOI：
10.1188/11.cjon.668-673
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发表时间：
2011-12-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Otsuka, Naoko
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作者：
Kawasaki, Yuko;Uchinuno, Atsuko;Otsuka, Naoko
近年来，癌症治疗取得了巨大的进步，使患者能够更快地离开医院，在家中接受治疗。因此，门诊病人的比例一直在上升。然而，从事实际门诊治疗的医疗保健提供者花费大量精力安全地执行日常程序，以至于他们几乎没有时间为患者提供教育或开展任何其他系统的患者支持计划。虽然自我保健通常被认为是人们为了帮助自己而做的事情，但西方国家和日本在自我保健的解释上存在差异。在日本，从家人和朋友那里获得必要的支持也被认为是必不可少的。护士要充分发挥病人的能力，必须对病人的自我照顾能力进行评估；但是，这方面的评价标准尚未确定。需要开发一种方法来评估在门诊接受化疗的患者的自我护理代理，以确保在这一护理领域的进一步发展。
Dramatic advances have been made in cancer treatment in recent years, enabling patients to leave the hospital more quickly and stay home while still undergoing treatment. As a result, the percentage of outpatients has been on the rise. Healthcare providers engaged in actual outpatient treatment, however, spend so much energy implementing daily procedures safely that they have little time remaining to provide patient education or carry out any other systematic patient support programs. Although self-care generally is believed to be what people do to help themselves, differences exist between Western countries and Japan in the interpretation of self-care. In Japan, obtaining necessary support from the family and friends that one relies on also is viewed as essential. Patients' self-care agency must be assessed if nurses are to make the most of patients' abilities; however, evaluation criteria for that purpose have yet to be established. Development of a method for evaluating the self-care agency of patients receiving chemotherapy on an outpatient basis is needed to ensure further advancement in this area of nursing.