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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 Perspective of Good Death among Advanced Cancer Patient under Indonesian Culture
Wahyu Dewi S
Wiyata Husada Nursing School, Indonesia
Statement of the problem: Good death has already been defined by previous studies. Most of them stated that good death
definition included comfort which reflected as no suffering with physical and psychological comfort, support and connection
to others and spiritual well-being. Some of them add several domains such as preparation of death, respected as individual and
life completion. A good death may be influenced by personal values, social context, religions and cultural contexts, evidenced
by different perspectives of some countries. Indonesia is a multicultural country and the most populous Muslim-majority
country. Therefore, the purpose this study is to understand the components of good death among advanced cancer patients
under Indonesian culture.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with convenience sampling in Central Java, Indonesia. Exploratory Factor
Analysis with principal axis factoring and promax rotation was used to identify the domains of good death. Descriptive statistic
was applied to present each domain and determine the important component of good death.
Result: A total of 363 patients with advanced cancer were recruited. After factor analysis of the Components of Good Death
questionnaire, 52 items were kept and covered by 5 domains. They were named as comfort, support & faith, dying with dignity,
life completion and death awareness & death preparation and explained 51.87% total variance. The most important domain
of good death is support & faith (M=6.28), whereas death awareness and death preparation (M=4.42) is the least important
domain of good death.
Conclusion: The findings represent advanced cancer patients’ perspectives regarding good death under Indonesian culture
and beliefs. It can be used as a guidance to improve quality of care or end of life care for cancer patients, particularly in
understanding what the patients desperately wants in the end of their life to achieve good death.
Biography
Wahyu Dewi graduated from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan with speciality in palliative care. She has conducted the first Indonesia study to develop of
Component of Good Death Indonesian version that reflected advanced cancer patients’ perspectives and beliefs in Muslim cultures. Before that, she also did several
literature reviews regarding palliative care. The purpose of all her studies is to develop palliative care system in her country which is still at the stage of infancy.
Wahyu Dewi S, J Palliat Care Med 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7386-C1-014