The mecanings of quality of life attributed by oncological patients in chemotherapy

• Grant number: 11/01147-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2011
• End date: May 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Marcia Maria Fontão Zago
• Grantee: Luciana Scatralhe Buetto
• Host Institution: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (EERP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The cancer and the chemotherapy are agents which can carry the patients to lose emotional control, due the suffering by the altered body and the effects of the drugs. Considering the lack of clarity of the concept of quality of life and the results of its measure for the care of the patient and for the clinical practice, I propose this study with the aim of to interpret the meanings of quality of life attributed by colorectal cancer patients in chemotherapy. The research will be development by the medical anthropology and the ethnography. I will invite to participate the patients from a clinic of coloproctology of the public hospital. The date will be collect in the patient's home by participating observations and interviews, to interpret the date I will use the process of inductive thematic analysis. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BUETTO, Luciana Scatralhe. The meaning of quality of life in the context of antineoplasic chemotherapy for patients with colorectal cancer. 2014. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) Ribeirão Preto.