Patients' Experiences of Cancer and Treatment

ISBN-13: 9783639083064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 88 str.

Elsabet Hjrleifsdttir

Opis

Treatment of patients with cancer is developing fast and more and more are being treated in outpatient clinics. Knowledge of how this is working out is scarce though. Results of studies described in this book demonstrate how Icelandic outpatients with cancer experience having cancer, how they cope and their perception of care and service. This book consists of three parts. The first is a thorough literature review on treatment of cancer and side effects. The second discusses methodo­logical issues relevant to both quantitative and qualitative research. The third part presents findings on patients distress and coping strategies and how they are related. It also describes patients satisfaction with care provided and influential factors. This study should be of interest to nurses and doctors and other professionals working with cancer patients, to students of nursing, medicine and applied social sciences to health contexts.

O autorze

Elísabet Hjörleifsdóttir Ph.D: Nursing certificate in Iceland, a
diploma in communication and care of the dying from NBS in
Scotland, a master s degree in cancer nursing at Glasgow
University, Scotland and a doctoral degree also in cancer
nursing at Lund University, Sweden. Assistant professor at the
University of Akureyri, Iceland.