background and purpose: cancer is associated with significant changes in the lifestyle of patients. spiritual well-being has been shown to be an inherent element of health, quality of life, increased survival rate, and enhanced adaptability of cancer patients with the disease. this study aimed to evaluate the spiritual health of cancer patients and their nurses. methods: this descriptive, corre...

FALLS AND HOSPITALIZED CANCER PATIENTSby REBECCA ALLAN-GIBBS, MSN, RN, CNS-BC, AOCNSMay 2014Advisor: Dr. Patricia Jarosz, PhD, RNMajor: NursingDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyProblem: Many hospital fall prevention studies have shown that having a diagnosis of cancerplaces patients at higher risk for falls/falls with injury when compared to other hospitalizedgroup...

background little is known about the possible influence of demographic and histological risk factors on the survival of patients with esophageal and gastric cancer. objectives based on the available registry and follow-up information, this study compares 1-5 year survival rate of gastric and esophageal cancer. patients and methods through a concurrent (prospective) cohort study, all 366 patient...

The study aimed at determining the differences in the levels of depression between hospitalized and non-hospitalized Gonadal cancer patients in tertiary care public hospitals in Karachi. The present study was conducted at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and Civil Hospital, Karachi, from July to October 2009. One hundred adult patients diagnosed with Gonadal cancer volunteered for the stu...

Background: Complications of anti-cancer therapies can lead to inadequate nutrient intake, indigestion and deficiency of nutrients. The present study aims to better understand the nutritional challenges of hospitalized patients with cancer. Methods: The participants were patients referred to the oncology ward of the hospital who were selected by the maximum diversity sampling of patients with v...

Clin. Pract. (2014) 11(2), 155–168 ISSN 2044-9038 part of Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is frequent in cancer patients and is one of the leading causes of death in this population. Hospitalized cancer patients and those receiving chemotherapy are at the greatest risk of developing VTE. Many randomized controlled trials in a variety of patient populations have demonstrated that primary prophylaxi...

conclusions the overall results of this study reveal that positive thinking training courses can be used to increase the quality of life and resiliency of cancer patients. results to analyze the data, t-test and analysis of covariance (ancova) was used. the result of this study showed that the positive thinking training course has a significant effect on resiliency (p = 0.00) and quality of lif...