[How the lifestyle of families who care for home parenteral nutrition patients changes].
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho
; 27 Suppl 3: 690-2, 2000 Dec.
Article
in Ja
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11190323
ABSTRACT
The role of families who care for home parenteral nutrition (HPN) patients is extremely important. They face many problems not only in caring for patients but also in their own lifestyle. We investigated by questionnaire the changes in the family of terminal stage cancer patients receiving HPN. Replies submitted to the questionnaire were obtained from 20 out of 32 families who underwent HPN in the Osaka Prefectural General Hospital. Ten out of 20 people answered that they changed their lifestyle during HPN. The changes were decreased opportunity to communicate with other people and decreased time for to spend on a hobby or other activity. The care of the HPN patients affects the wife, daughter-in-law and children more than the husband of the patient, because the former have to manage housekeeping as well as patient care. This result suggests that the quality of life of the family of terminal stage cancer patients at home with HPN declined because they had to change their own lifestyle in order to spare time to care for the patients.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Quality of Life
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Parenteral Nutrition, Home
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Home Care Services, Hospital-Based
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Life Style
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Neoplasms
Type of study:
Qualitative_research
Aspects:
Patient_preference
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Ja
Journal:
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho
Year:
2000
Document type:
Article