An Examination of the Concrete Service Needs of Advanced Cancer Patients
An Examination of the Concrete Service Needs of Advanced Cancer Patients
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晚期癌症患者具体服务需求调查
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1987
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Margaret S. Wool Msw
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V. Mor;E. Ma;Margaret S. Wool Msw
许多努力都是针对了解癌症患者的心理需求。然而，由于卫生政策趋势和癌症存活率的提高可能会增加具体服务需求的普遍性和严重性，因此了解患者对这些服务的需求至关重要。从217癌症患者和家庭成员谁已经接受机构的服务收集的需求评估数据被用来检查三类需求之间的相互关系：身体，工具和行政。还根据情感和经济负担来审查需求类别。病人经历了一系列的需要，涉及一个以上的类别。年龄，疾病的持续时间，教育，收入，性别，婚姻状况，生活安排和疼痛状态被发现与类别内的需要程度有关。研究结果可用于识别需要服务的风险患者和家庭，这些服务将维持他们对治疗的依从性，并增加他们的健康风险。
Much effort has been directed toward understanding the psychological needs of cancer patients. However, since health policy trends and improved cancer survival may act to increase the prevalence and severity of concrete service needs, understanding patients' needs for those services is vital. Needs assessment data collected from 217 cancer patients and family members who were already receiving agency services were used to examine the interrelationships among three categories of need: physical, instrumental, and administrative. Categories of need also were examined as a function of emotional and financial burden. Patients experienced a constellation of needs involving more than one category. Age, duration of disease, education, income, sex, marital status, living arrangements, and pain status were found to be related to degree of need within categories. The results can be used to identify patients and families at risk for needing services that will maintam their compliance with treatment and increase their...