Assesment of Knowledge, Utilization and Accessibility of Palliative Care Among Cervical Cancer Patients in Tikur Anbesa Hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shimelis Tsehay | |
| dc.contributor.author | Musema Hasen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-10T07:54:27Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T09:01:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-10T07:54:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T09:01:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background-Palliative care is defined by World Health Organization as an approach thatimproves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identificationand impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial and spiritualproblems. This study attempted to assess the knowledge, accessibility and Utilization of palliativecare Services to Cervical Cancer and its determinants at Tikur Anbesa Hospital, Ethiopia, Method: This study was a cross-sectional Institution based study of women who had CervicalCancer in TAH. The study was carried out in Tikur Anbesa Hospital with purposive selection,since it was the only center of palliative care and treatment services in Ethiopia. Data wascollected by interviewing the client’s using a pretested Amharic version questionnaire. During thesurvey, 384 women with cervical cancer were interviewed. Data entry was done using Epi Infoversion 3.5.1 and was exported to SPSS version 21 for analysis. Logistic regression was appliedto control confounders. Result: Out of the total clients interviewed, 239(62.2%) respondents who had treatment in TikurAnbesa Specialized Hospital were knowledgeable about palliative care for cervical cancer. About86% of client’s were in the age 35 years old or older. About Nine out of ten (89.8%) respondentsreported problems on accessibility of palliative care services for cervical cancer in Tikur Anbesahospital. Women’s knowledge of care (AOR=26.9), presence of little physical wellbeing to therespondents (AOR=3.1), social wellbeing of the respondents (AOR=1.7); monthly income of therespondents (AOR=0.25) and marital status of the women (AOR=55.4) were statisticallysignificantly associated with respondent’s utilization of palliative care services for cervical cancerat Tikur Anbesa Hospital. Conclusion: Among patients with cervical cancer who were interviewed, nearly, more than threewomen out of five had reported palliative care services from its center at Tikur Anbesa Hospitalin the last 12 months of data collection. Recommendation: Community Mobilization through the media, posters and face to face oncommunity health day focusing on palliative care services to cervical cancer must be addressedby Addis Ababa Town administrations and policy makers. Since the center was only TAH, theFDRE government must build another center in Addis or elsewhere in the country so that theproblems of resources can be solved.TAH has to fulfill all the facilitations listed and needed forclients with cervical cancer for palliative services based on the standards. Key words: palliative care, cervical cancer, Tikur Anbesa Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/7552 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Palliative care Cervical cancer Tikur Anbesa Hospital | en_US |
| dc.title | Assesment of Knowledge, Utilization and Accessibility of Palliative Care Among Cervical Cancer Patients in Tikur Anbesa Hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |