Patients Experiences of Cancer and Treatment

Treatment of patients with cancer is developing fast
and more and more are being treated in outpatient
clinics. Knowledge of how this is working out is
scarce though. Results of studies described in this
book demonstrate how Icelandic outpatients with
cancer experience having cancer, how they cope and
their perception of care and service. This book
consists of three parts. The first is a thorough
literature review on treatment of cancer and side
effects. The second discusses methodological issues
relevant to both quantitative and qualitative
research. The third part presents findings on
patients distress and coping strategies and how
they are related. It also describes patients
satisfaction with care provided and influential
factors. This study should be of interest to nurses
and doctors and other professionals working with
cancer patients, to students of nursing, medicine
and applied social sciences to health contexts.

Autorentext

Elísabet Hjörleifsdóttir Ph.D: Nursing certificate in Iceland, a diploma in communication and care of the dying from NBS in Scotland, a master's degree in cancer nursing at Glasgow University, Scotland and a doctoral degree also in cancer nursing at Lund University, Sweden. Assistant professor at the University of Akureyri, Iceland.

Klappentext
Treatment of patients with cancer is developing fast and more and more are being treated in outpatient clinics. Knowledge of how this is working out is scarce though. Results of studies described in this book demonstrate how Icelandic outpatients with cancer experience having cancer, how they cope and their perception of care and service. This book consists of three parts. The first is a thorough literature review on treatment of cancer and side effects. The second discusses methodological issues relevant to both quantitative and qualitative research. The third part presents findings on patients' distress and coping strategies and how they are related. It also describes patients' satisfaction with care provided and influential factors. This study should be of interest to nurses and doctors and other professionals working with cancer patients, to students of nursing, medicine and applied social sciences to health contexts.