Cancer victims’ attitudes towards the importance of supportive treatment and health-care

The Smart Self-Care Unit (SSCU), a fundamental component of this system, enables remote health care data collection from patients being treated or observed at homes. Patients who had been treated for cancer several years prior completed primary data to evaluate psychosocial outcomes such as supporti...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Journal of intelligent & fuzzy systems 2023-01, Vol.45 (2), p.2289
Hauptverfasser: Nirupama, V, Nair, Prabha Shreeraj, ATA Kishore Kumar, Mantripragada Yaswanth Bhanu Murthy, Malhotra, Priyanka, Syed Noeman Taqui, Almoallim, Hesham S, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Raghavan, S S
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:The Smart Self-Care Unit (SSCU), a fundamental component of this system, enables remote health care data collection from patients being treated or observed at homes. Patients who had been treated for cancer several years prior completed primary data to evaluate psychosocial outcomes such as supportive patient needs, emotional stress, and quality of life (QoL). While anxiety levels have increased, the QoL and depression ratings are comparable to community rates. Almost two survivors reported having at least one unmet need, the majority of which related to fundamental survivorship difficulties, underscoring survivors’ distinct requirements. The number of years since a person was diagnosed has no bearing on their level of need. Almost the three times as several unfulfilled requirements were reported by the victims who were clinically worried, and over two and a half times more were reported by victims who were depressed. There were numerous reports of \hfilneg
ISSN:1064-1246
1875-8967
DOI:10.3233/JIFS-231903