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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32
nd
EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
Use of complementary and alternative treatment in the patients with cancer
Gulcan Bahçecioglu Turan
1
, Safiye Yanmıs
2
, Seda Karaman, Fatma Gunduz Oruc
1
and
Suheyla Yarali
1
Ataturk University, Turkey
2
Nineteen may university hospital, Turkey
Objective:
In cancer treatment, in addition to drug treatment or nonpharmacological measures alone have an important place.
Complementary Alternative Therapy (TAT), which is used unconsciously, can cause organ dysfunction due to the weight of the
disease table and the side effects that ocur
Methods:
This study was conducted between January and June 2017 with 250 cancer patients in the oncology and hematology
clinic of a university hospital in Turkey. The data was collected by using questionnaire consisting of the information about the
patient’s demographic characteristics and using state of complementary and alternative treatment. Data that was collected from
the study was analyzed by using means, percentage and chi-squared test.
Results:
It was determined that 23.6% of the patients participating in the study was in the 31-41 age group, 57.2% was female,
%84.4% was married, 66.4% ,38.2% was primary school graduate, 40% were housewives and 66.8% were not smoking. It
was also found that 33.6% of the treatment duration was between 6-8 years, 53.6% was 3 phases of the disease,72.4% were
accompanied by another chronic illness,74.8% of the patients had at least one patient with cancer in the family, and 74.8%
received chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment It has shown that %71.2% of the patients use complementary and
alternative treatment, marital status and gender with use of complementary and alternative treatment were found not to be
statistically significant (p>0.05), age, occupation, educational status, smoking, duration of treatment, stage of disease, type
of cancer, another accompanying chronic illness, the presence of cancer in the family and the type of treatment with use of
complementary and alternative treatment were found to be statistically significant (p<0.05).
Conclusıon:
Nurses should determine the use of Complementary Alternative Therapy in cancer patients as cancer patients
frequently use Complementary AlternativeTherapy methods. It can be suggested that nurses should be educated and counseled
about the use of Safe Complementary Alternative Therapy for individuals with chronic illness and that the nursing story forms
contain questions about the use of Complementary Alternative Therapy.
Key words:
Cancer, complementary and alternative treatment, nursing, patient
Biography
Young researcher Fatma Gündüz Oruç I was born in 1988 Elazığ. I graduated from nursing in 2009. İn 2014. Atatürk University Faculty of health sciences, internal
medicine, I finished the master's degree in nursing . Now Atatürk University health sciences faculty of internal medicine in nursing, PhD student and research
assistant.
fato_2325@hotmail.comGulcan Bahçecioglu Turan et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061