Quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at Oncohematology services Havana, 2011-2013
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>Introduction:</strong> The impact and psychological repercussion of cancer in childhood justify the importance of the researches on quality...
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| author | María Del Carmen Llantá Abreu Jorge Grau Ábalo Héctor Demetrio Bayarre Vea Jesús de los Santos Renó Céspedes Sergio Machín García Caridad Verdecia Cañizares |
| author_facet | María Del Carmen Llantá Abreu Jorge Grau Ábalo Héctor Demetrio Bayarre Vea Jesús de los Santos Renó Céspedes Sergio Machín García Caridad Verdecia Cañizares |
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| description | <p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>Introduction:</strong> The impact and psychological repercussion of cancer in childhood justify the importance of the researches on quality of life related to patients’ health. <strong><br /> Objective:</strong> Describe the researches with socio-demographic and clinical variables on onco-pediatric patients who are under oncohematological services in Havana from 2011 to 2013. <strong><br /> Material and Methods:</strong> A descriptive research with 150 children that fulfill the inclusion criteria. A system of life quality evaluation for children who suffer from cancer was applied; this system of evaluation was developed in Cuba. Punctual and at interval appraisals were done to the 95% of the global arithmetic average and by dimension through socio-demographic and clinical variables. Different test were used; t student for independent samples, the ANOVA of one way and the Scheffe. <strong><br /> Results:</strong> The global average of the quality of life related to health was 3, 49. The worst evolutions were on the dimension of symptoms associated to treatment (5, 88) and for preoccupations. There were significant differences in different dimensions for socio-demographic and clinical variables. <strong><br /> Conclusions:</strong> The patients showed high and average levels of quality of life related to health. The dimensions: symptoms associated to treatment, preoccupations, emotional symptoms, validity and primary symptoms were the worst evaluated dimensions. Academic level, type of treatment, and time of evolution differentiate patients with a tendency to have a better or worse global quality of life related to health.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>Key words:</strong> oncohematology, quality of life related with health, pediatrics, cancer, pediatric oncology.</span></p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23803cf9293a4349a41479241fcfa10b2022-12-22T01:20:17ZengUniversidad de Ciencias Médicas de La HabanaRevista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas1729-519X2016-05-01152285296575Quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at Oncohematology services Havana, 2011-2013María Del Carmen Llantá Abreu0Jorge Grau Ábalo1Héctor Demetrio Bayarre Vea2Jesús de los Santos Renó Céspedes3Sergio Machín García4Caridad Verdecia Cañizares5Instituto Nacional de Oncología y Radiobiología (INOR), La Habana, CubaInstituto Nacional de Oncología y Radiobiología (INOR), La Habana, Cuba.Instituto Nacional de Oncología y Radiobiología (INOR), La Habana, Cuba.Instituto Nacional de Oncología y Radiobiología (INOR), La Habana, Cuba.Instituto Nacional de Oncología y Radiobiología (INOR), La Habana, Cuba.Instituto Nacional de Oncología y Radiobiología (INOR), La Habana, Cuba.<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>Introduction:</strong> The impact and psychological repercussion of cancer in childhood justify the importance of the researches on quality of life related to patients’ health. <strong><br /> Objective:</strong> Describe the researches with socio-demographic and clinical variables on onco-pediatric patients who are under oncohematological services in Havana from 2011 to 2013. <strong><br /> Material and Methods:</strong> A descriptive research with 150 children that fulfill the inclusion criteria. A system of life quality evaluation for children who suffer from cancer was applied; this system of evaluation was developed in Cuba. Punctual and at interval appraisals were done to the 95% of the global arithmetic average and by dimension through socio-demographic and clinical variables. Different test were used; t student for independent samples, the ANOVA of one way and the Scheffe. <strong><br /> Results:</strong> The global average of the quality of life related to health was 3, 49. The worst evolutions were on the dimension of symptoms associated to treatment (5, 88) and for preoccupations. There were significant differences in different dimensions for socio-demographic and clinical variables. <strong><br /> Conclusions:</strong> The patients showed high and average levels of quality of life related to health. The dimensions: symptoms associated to treatment, preoccupations, emotional symptoms, validity and primary symptoms were the worst evaluated dimensions. Academic level, type of treatment, and time of evolution differentiate patients with a tendency to have a better or worse global quality of life related to health.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>Key words:</strong> oncohematology, quality of life related with health, pediatrics, cancer, pediatric oncology.</span></p>http://www.revhabanera.sld.cu/index.php/rhab/article/view/1165 |
| spellingShingle | María Del Carmen Llantá Abreu Jorge Grau Ábalo Héctor Demetrio Bayarre Vea Jesús de los Santos Renó Céspedes Sergio Machín García Caridad Verdecia Cañizares Quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at Oncohematology services Havana, 2011-2013 Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas |
| title | Quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at Oncohematology services Havana, 2011-2013 |
| title_full | Quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at Oncohematology services Havana, 2011-2013 |
| title_fullStr | Quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at Oncohematology services Havana, 2011-2013 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at Oncohematology services Havana, 2011-2013 |
| title_short | Quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at Oncohematology services Havana, 2011-2013 |
| title_sort | quality of life related to health in children and adolescents with cancer treated at oncohematology services havana 2011 2013 |
| url | http://www.revhabanera.sld.cu/index.php/rhab/article/view/1165 |
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