The health condition of the person with colorectal cancer at the beginning of the therapeutic pathway

Authors

Sara Cruz Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto, Porto
Cristina Pinto Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Porto
Filipe Pereira Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Porto
Fátima Teixeira Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto, Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31877/on.2013.24.03

Keywords:

self – care, dependency, body process, colorectal cancer

Abstract

The cancer and the therapy process represent significant changes in the health condition of the patient. When we talk about health condition we are reporting to the (helped here in the changes in the) field of self-care as well as to the commitments in the field of body process. We have studied the subject “The health condition of the patients with colorretal cancer at the beginning of the therapy”. The study involved 141 patients.

Overall, in the field of self-care customers of the sample not revealed high levels of dependence in the different areas of self-care. Although 33 cases needed help from a person to perform some of the “instrumental activities of daily living”.1 to 4 cases of customers completely dependent and non-participating in the fields of self-care of cleanliness, mobility, and to take care of the colostomy, and even a group of 2 to 15 cases of customers who only need help in person in the field of self-care of cleanliness, mobility, administering medication and to take care of the colostomy. In the field commitments of body process the customers of the sample presented, bleeding, fatigue, pain, impaired sleep, decreased appetite, diarrhea, loss of taste, constipation, impaired range of motion and nausea.

The results obtained will direct us to the need for studies about this problem of longitudinal character that let describe the evalution in the dimension of the condition of health in clients with colorectal cancer.

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Published

2013-07-10

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Cruz S, Pinto C, Pereira F, Teixeira F. The health condition of the person with colorectal cancer at the beginning of the therapeutic pathway. Onco.News [Internet]. 2013 Jul. 10 [cited 2024 Nov. 24];(24):31-6. Available from: https://onco.news/index.php/journal/article/view/158