Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland, CA.
We describe a subgroup of the Chronically Critically Ill (CCI) we call the Terminally Critically Ill as demonstrated by terminally ill cancer patients. These cancer patients, though clearly terminally...
Journeying with patients throughout their cancer trajectory and caring for them at the end of life can lead to emotional and moral distress in oncologists, negatively impacting their personal and prof...
From September to December 2023, semi-structured interviews were conducted with oncologists in a palliative care center in Singapore. The Ring Theory of Personhood (RToP) was used as a framework to ca...
Participants included six female and six male physicians, aged 30 to 53 years (mean 38 years), with an average of 9.75 years of experience as oncologists. The main domains identified were 1) challenge...
Oncologists experience self-doubt and moral distress as they manage transitions in care. The PIF of oncologists can be supported through reflection and introspection, peer support, and interventions t...
Cancer pain is a significant issue in terminally ill cancer patients (TICPs). The fentanyl patch (FP) is used extensively for treating cancer pain, but FP requirements vary between patients. We aimed ...
For terminally sick neonates and their families, it's crucial to provide holistic nursing care that incorporates both curative and palliative care as much as feasible. It is well known that the bigges...
A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 200 nurses working in a tertiary center providing care for terminally ill neonates in Saudi Arabia. Data was collected from using Neonatal Palli...
Two hundred nurses were surveyed (the response rate was 79%). The mean age of the 158 participants was 35.67 (standard deviation (SD): 7.43), and the majority were female (151; 95.6%). The majority we...
The assessment of the fundamental skills of neonatal palliative care by nurses was insufficient. To enhance the quality of care, it is crucial to incorporate education on neonatal palliative care into...
Paediatric palliative care involves the physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being of terminally ill children and their families. Competency in palliative care centred on personal traits and at...
Is to identify paediatric nurses' perceived Competencies toward Palliative Care for Terminally Ill Children....
Used was a descriptive research design. The sample included 72 nurses who worked at neonatal, pediatric intensive care units ( NICU, PICU) in four hospitals affiliated to Universal Health Insurance (U...
Based on the study, 56.9% of nurses had adequate knowledge, and 47.2% of paediatric nurses agreed that they had some extendable palliative care competences.It can be summarized that more than sighlty ...
The relationship between nurses' overall perceived competence and overall knowledge was very statistically significant. The Recommendation study's findings highlight the urgent need of creating an evi...
Although the medical potential of the hope for a cure has been fiercely debated within academia, few researchers have approached this topic from the perspective of terminally ill cancer patients thems...
Seventeen terminally ill cancer patients were recruited from the department of oncology at a tertiary hospital, where data were collected through individual interviews and participatory observation fr...
The respondents experienced a dynamic swing between construction and denial of the hope for a cure. Furthermore, the patients negotiated between three forms of hope, including the hope for a cure, the...
Medical staff needs to be sensitive to terminally ill cancer patients' dynamic swing, negotiation and motivation during the process of constructing the hope for a cure....
Patients with terminal illnesses have different symptoms. The goal of palliative care is to alleviate the suffering induced by these symptoms. Available research on symptoms has focused on their preva...
The study used network analysis to explore symptom clusters among patients with terminal illnesses and identify the central symptoms, the bridge symptoms, and pathways between physical and psychosocia...
This is a retrospective cohort study using baseline symptom assessment of 677 adults with terminal illnesses receiving care from the Integrated Community End-of-Life Care Support Teams....
Three symptom clusters were identified: physical, psychological, and practical clusters. "Weakness or lack of energy" was identified as the crucial symptom affecting the changes of other symptoms, fol...
This study is the first of its kind to investigate the connections and mechanism of influence between symptoms among patients with terminal illnesses. It offers clear pathways for intervention with th...
The Chochinov Dignity Model was developed based on a cohort of adult patients with advanced cancer, but its role among dying children is not clear. This study aims to develop a model of dignity for ch...
This is a descriptive qualitative study. Participants included a total of 11 parents and 14 healthcare providers who were recruited from a tertiary children's hospital in Beijing and the Pediatric Pal...
The themes of the empirical Dignity Model were broadly supported in this study, but some themes were interpreted differently in the child population. Compared with the original model, some child-speci...
This is the first study on Dignity Model for terminal children. Knowledge of children's dignity can promote reflection of healthcare providers and caregivers regarding the values underlying their perf...
Cancer is the world's second greatest cause of mortality and a leading cause of death in both developed and developing countries. Patients employ a number of complementary and alternative medicine (CA...
This was a cross-sectional study. In southern Iran, 238 individuals with advanced cancer were studied in oncology centers and doctors' offices. During the months of January to August 2021, patients we...
The results showed that terminally ill cancer patients had a good quality of life. Last year, 85.7% of participants used at least one kind of CAM. Furthermore, 45.4% of participants used only one form...
The current study found that using CAM could affect different aspects of QOL in terminally ill cancer patients. As a result, it is feasible that using CAM could help these people enhance their health ...
Terminal illness is an irreversible illness that, without life-sustaining procedures, usually results in death or permanent disability from which recovery is unlikely. When involved, family caregivers...
An exploratory descriptive qualitative approach was used. Twenty (20) family caregivers voluntarily participated in the study from the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Semi-structured interviews were condu...
From the analysis, three main themes emerged: challenges, coping strategies, and social support. These themes encompassed sixteen subthemes including financial burden, bad health conditions, faith and...
The difficulties and demands of family caregiving roles for terminally ill relatives are complex and multifactorial. The findings call for multidisciplinary professional attention for family caregiver...