Palliative oncological patients with insomnia: concerns of the patients and their relatives' perception

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• dc.contributor.author Font Guiteras, Antoni
• dc.contributor.author Villar Abelló, Helena
• dc.contributor.author Planas Domingo, Josep
• dc.contributor.author Farriols, Cristina
• dc.contributor.author Ruiz Ripoll, Ada
• dc.contributor.author Berger, Rita
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-06-15T06:31:21Z
• dc.date.available 2022-06-15T06:31:21Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract Insomnia is one of the most frequent symptoms and usually generates significant stress in 60% of patients with advanced cancer. Worries from the patients' and relatives' perspective are crucial to improve the patients' quality of life but have received limited attention. The aims were to identify the concerns of patients with insomnia in the terminal illness stage in a palliative care unit and the relatives' perception, and to compare both. Here, 63 patients and 53 relatives answered a questionnaire about worries in the personal, spiritual, family-related and economic area, as well as a quality-of-life uniscale. The results showed that the relatives' most frequent concern was "Having lived life to the fullest" (100%), and the most intense was "The possible suffering during the process" (9.2/10). The patients' most expressed concern was: "Having unfinished business" (100%), and the most intense was "Suffering during the process" (9.3/10). Quality of life showed an average value of 6.95 out of 10. Relatives only coincided significantly in: "Not knowing what happens after death" (r = 0.600; p = 0.000). These results bring visibility to concerns during the final stage of oncological palliative patients with insomnia from the patients' and relatives' perspective. Knowing both is useful for professionals to foster the well-being for a short, yet very important, period for patients, relatives and the caregiving team.
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• dc.identifier.citation Font Guiteras A, Villar Abelló H, Planas Domingo J, Farriols Danes C, Ruiz Ripoll A, Berger R. Palliative oncological patients with insomnia: concerns of the patients and their relatives' perception. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 12; 18(16): 8509. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18168509
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168509
• dc.identifier.issn 1660-4601
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53498
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher MDPI
• dc.rights Copyright © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Articles from International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health are provided here courtesy of Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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• dc.subject.keyword Concerns
• dc.subject.keyword Insomnia
• dc.subject.keyword Palliative care
• dc.subject.keyword Primary caregiver
• dc.subject.keyword Terminal cancer
• dc.title Palliative oncological patients with insomnia: concerns of the patients and their relatives' perception
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