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Volume 4 Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing Public Health Nursing 2018
September 19-20, 2018
September 19-20, 2018 Singapore
7th International Conference on
Public Health and Nursing
Shou-Yu Wang et al., J Comm Pub Health Nurs 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.4172/2471-9846-C1-002
Cancer patients who use complementary and alternative medicine-family’s point of view
Shou-Yu Wang1 Ying-Ying Chang2
1Hungkuang University Department of Nursing, Taiwan
2Taichung Veterans General Hospital Department of Nursing, Taiwan
C omplementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) had long existed in the human history as long as we can imagine. The
prevalence of CAM may be different between western and eastern countries. CAM is widely utilized by healthy people,
people with diseases and people with cancer. Many studies have done in these areas. However, family’s perspectives are not
explored in much depth. Therefore, this study aims to explore family’s points of view to people with cancer who use CAM. This
study adopted a qualitative research design based on grounded theory. A semi-structured, in-depth interview was conducted.
Five categories emerge regarding family of cancer patients’ views to people with cancer who use CAM. The process include:
The purposes of using CAM, patients and family use of CAM, using CAM actions, religious practice for cancer patients, family
caregivers’ roles. Core category: He/she is comfortable-most important.The recommendation for this study is family’s responses
and actions to people with cancer who use CAM should be known by health care professionals (HCPs). The information of
using CAM should be known when patients admit to the hospital. For future research, it is recommended to explore what
CAM that the patients actually use. In addition, it is worthwhile to establish the evidence base for CAM which works for the
cancer patients in Taiwan.
Biography
Shou Yu (Cindy) Wang is from Taiwan. She is interested in supportive care (especially in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use) and palliative care
in cancer. Now, she is an assistant professor at Department of Nursing Hungkuang University in Taiwan.