Motivational interviewing as a smoking cessation intervention for patients with cancer: Randomized controlled trial

Article Abstract:

The study aims to determine whether a motivational interviewing intervention increased successful smoking cessation attempts of patients with cancer attending a South Australian public hospital, as compared with usual care. It concluded that future efforts to improve cessation in this patient group focused on the delivery of more direct methods for encouraging spouse cessation and support to the patient in quitting, and the use of bupropion as an adjunct to cessation.

United Kingdom, Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, Antismoking Programs, Causes of, Smoking cessation programs, Smoking cessation, Cancer

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Do internal standards of quality of life change in lung cancer patients?

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to investigate the changes in internal standards of fatigue, global health/ quality of life, and physical function in patients with inoperable lung cancer. The mixed findings do not clearly indicate any change occurring in internal standards of the patients and the severely ill patients showed high symptoms levels and could have adapted to their symptoms before the study.

Diagnosis, Quality of life, Lung cancer

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Determinants of hospice home care use among terminally ill cancer patients

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted, with the secondary analysis of data from 127 terminally ill cancer patients, to identify determinants of the use of hospice home care services during their final days of life. The study concluded that sixty-four out of 127 patients had used hospice home care services before death.

Science & research, Services information, Research, Services, Patient care, Hospice care

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