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Volume 20, Issue 7 (Suppl) J Psychiatry
ISSN: 2378-5756 JOP, an open access journal Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017
November 20-21, 2017
November 20-21, 2017 Melbourne, Australia
28th International Conference on
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Emotional distress of palliative cancer patient in Soetomo Hospitals Surabaya
Eka Yuni Nugrahayu and Agustina Konginan
Psychiatrist at Mental hospital in Samarinda, Indonesia
Background: Cancer patients vulnerable of being emotional distress either due to treatment, physical weakness and financial
problems. Emotional distress could reduce quality of life. Indeed, patients whom suffering extreme emotional distress will
worsen their clinical prognosis.
Aim: To describe emotional distress of cancer patients at Palliative Policlinic of Soetomo Hospitals Surabaya.
Method: Descriptive research with survey method on 30 patients in Palliative Polyclinic of Soetomo Hospitals. We have used
the questionnaire DT NCCN (Distress Thermometer National Comprehensive Cancer Network) that consists of 5 dimension
problems: Practical problem, emotional, family, spiritual and physical conditions.
Result: From30 cancer patients, it was found that 70% (21 patients) of themhad emotional distress. From21 patients that suffered
distress, 61.9% (13 patients) had distress in practical problems, 57.15% (12 patients) of them had distress family problems, 95.2%
(20 patients) had emotional distress, 9.5% (2 patients) had spiritual distress and all of them had physical distress too.
Conclusion: Most cancer patients experience emotional distress. The most common emotional distress in the patient is a
physical condition.
Biography
Eka Yuni Nugrahayu, MD has done this research while she was being resident psychiatric at Airlangga University. The aim of the research is to evaluate the mental
health of patient in Palliative Care. She hopes there would be another screening tool like DT NCCN, that’s very simple for using and could be done for every
profession. It could be for prevent the psychiatric illness among the patients. Now, she is a psychiatrist at mental hospital in Samarinda, that’s concern of community
health care, and psycho geriatric.
Eka Yuni Nugrahayu et al., J Psychiatry 2017, 20:7 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2378-5756-C1-030