Palliative care and its relationship to life satisfaction among cancer patients

Document Type : Empirical Articles

Authors

1 Faculty of Social Work Aswan University

2 Case work Department - Faculty of Social work - Aswan University - Egypt

Abstract

The current study aims to determine the relationship between palliative care and life satisfaction among cancer patients. This study is one of the descriptive studies that focus on monitoring and analyzing the relationship between the two variables. The study utilized the social survey method with a deliberate sample of (128) cancer patients from the Oncology Institute in Aswan. The study findings showed a statistically significant positive relationship between the dimensions of palliative care and life satisfaction among cancer patients at a significance level of (0.01).

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