Perceived factors to providing palliative care for patients with cancer - a qualitative systematic review.

Haydeh Heidari,Masoud Amiri,Marjan Mardani-Hamooleh

doi:10.4081/oncol.2020.463

Abstract

Palliative care (PC) is one of the necessary cares given throughout a patient’s experience with cancer. The aim of this study was to identify the perceived factors to providing PC for patients with cancer. Our study was a systematic review of qualitative literature. To this end, electronic databases, including CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, Ovid, and Web of Science as well as Persian databases were searched and qualitative studies on the role of PC in patients with cancer published between Jan 2008 and Dec 2017 were selected. Generally, 12 studies were reviewed. A thematic synthesis approach was used to analyze the data. Exploring the selected articles, the findings on the perceived factors to providing PC for patients with cancer were categorized into three themes, including organizational factors, ethical factors, and psychological factors. This qualitative systematic review expands our knowledge about factors influencing the provision of PC for patients with cancer. It is necessary for health system managers and caregivers to pay attention to all aforesaid factors in order to improve PC for cancer patients.

Highlights

E Exploring the selected articles, the findings on the perceived facs tors to providing Palliative care (PC) for patients with cancer were categorized into u three themes, including organizational factors, ethical factors, and l psychological factors
The findings on the perceived factors to providing PC for patients with cancer were categorized into three themes, including organizational factors, ethical factors, and psychological factors
Theme 1: Organizational factors Theme of organizational factors and its role in services related to PC are factors which include equipment and human resources in their concepts on the one hand, and equipment suppliers and inhuman resources for these services on the other hand

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E Exploring the selected articles, the findings on the perceived facs tors to providing PC for patients with cancer were categorized into u three themes, including organizational factors, ethical factors, and l psychological factors. PC is an approach for promoting the patient’s and his family quality of life and supporting them in dealing with problems limiting their life To this end, PC primarily aims to prevent or treat, as early as possible, the symptoms and complications induced by the disease; and secondly to diagnose and treat the related psychological, social, physical, and spiritual problems. PC primarily aims to prevent or treat, as early as possible, the symptoms and complications induced by the disease; and secondly to diagnose and treat the related psychological, social, physical, and spiritual problems This type of care is beneficial throughout life and in difficult situations such as famine and it should not be used just for end-stage patients.[6] PC is provided throughout a patient’s experience with cancer initiating at diagnosis and continue through treatment, follow-up care, and the end of life. Midwifery, Nursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical such as Iran, offering PC services for patients with cancer is quite

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