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Volume 8 Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine Hospice 2018
July 18-19, 2018
July 18-19, 2018 Melbourne, Australia
5th World Congress on
Hospice and Palliative Care
The relationship between dignity status and quality of life in Iranian terminally ill patients with cancer
Masoud Rezaei1 and Mohammad Abbasi 2
1Khatam Hospital, Iran
2Qom University, Iran
Palliative care is an approach that has been used to care for terminally ill patients. The current study was performed to assess
the association between the status of patient dignity and Quality of Life (QOL) in Iranian terminally ill patients with cancer.
This descriptive correlational study was conducted on 210 end-stage cancer patients (102 men and 108 women) who were
referred to Seyed Al-Shohada Hospital, Isfahan, Iran, in 2015. To assess dignity status, we used the Patient Dignity Inventory.
The Persian version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire was
used for QOL assessment. There was a significant negative association between total dignity status and QOL scales. In addition,
significant negative relationship was observed between dignity-related domains (loss of worth sense: r=−0.50, P<0.001;
anxiety and uncertainty: r=−0.51, P<0.001; symptom distress: r=−0.62, P<0.001; and loss of autonomy: r=−0.61, P<0.001)
and functional scale and some subscales of the QOL scale. In contrast, a significant positive relationship was found between
dignity-related domains and total symptom scale and fatigue. No significant relationship was observed between different items
of dignity and global health status/QOL scale. High dignity status in terminally ill patients was associated with higher QOL in
terms of functional intactness and lower symptom distress. Further studies are necessary to shed light to our findings.
Biography
Masoud Rezaei has completed his master’s degree in Nursing Education from the University of Isfahan Medical Sciences. He has done his thesis on the care of the
end of life in cancer patients. Currently he is a PhD student in Nursing Education at the Khatam Hospital’s Neuroscience Research Center. His research interests
focus on the care of cancer patients and palliative medicine.
Masoud Rezaei et al., J Palliat Care Med 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7386-C1-014