TITLE:
Human Care Theory and Influences on the Life Quality Index of Cancer Patients in Household Life
AUTHORS:
Yali Sun, Ling Gao, Ying Dong, Ling Gong
KEYWORDS:
Community Nurses; Theory of Human Care; Patients with Cancer; Quality of Life; Happiness Index
JOURNAL NAME:
Engineering,
Vol.5 No.10B,
October
31,
2013
ABSTRACT: To investigatetheinfluences of the application of human care
theory on the life quality and happiness of cancer patients after they receiveda
community nursing care which was implemented by the human care theory. The
quality life and the happiness index of 93 patients with cancer living in the
six communities in Jillin were assessed, the assessment of the life quality was
based on a life quality scale (SF-36) and that of the happiness index was based
on Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH). The
community nurses cared for these patients by applying the theory of human care
and the life quality and the happiness index of the patients were observed
after the care. The results showed that there were significant differences in
the score of 5 dimensions in the eight dimensions of the life quality between
before the care and after the care (