CHEMOTHERAPY AND ITS ADVERSE EFFECTS: REPORT OF ONCOLOGY CLIENTS

Authors

  • Lenícia Cruz Soares
  • Andréia Burille
  • Milena Hohmann Antonacci
  • Maria da Glória Santana
  • Eda Schwartz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i4.16388

Keywords:

Enfermagem, Relações enfermeiro-paciente, Cuidados de enfermagem, Quimioterapia, Nursing, Nurse-patient relationships, Nursing care, Chemotherapy, Enfermería, Relación enfermera-paciente, Atención en enfermería

Abstract

It is a qualitative research, with exploratory and descriptive approach, with the objective of knowing how
patients in chemotherapy deal with the adverse effects of the treatment. The scenery of the research was the Oncology
Unit of a hospital of the South area of Rio Grande do Sul. Five patients in chemotherapy treatment participated of the study.
The collection of data happened in September of 2008, by open interview with a guideline question. The interviewees told
that they presented adverse effects to the treatment, some in larger, other in smaller intensity. They mentioned that they
possess superficial information about chemotherapy and their effects and they referred to use medication to soften them,
and some of them referred to take medication without medical advice. They also detached the importance of faith and
religiosity on the treatment.

Downloads

Published

2009-12-14

How to Cite

Soares, L. C., Burille, A., Antonacci, M. H., Santana, M. da G., & Schwartz, E. (2009). CHEMOTHERAPY AND ITS ADVERSE EFFECTS: REPORT OF ONCOLOGY CLIENTS. Cogitare Enfermagem, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i4.16388

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 4 (2009)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

License

Cogitare Enfermagem reserves the right to make normative, orthographic, and grammatical changes to the published article to maintain the cultured standard of the language, while respecting the authors' style.

The published study is the sole responsibility of the author(s), and Cogitare Enfermagem is exclusively responsible for evaluating the manuscript as a scientific publication vehicle. Revista Cogitare Enfermagem is not responsible for any violations of Law No. 9,610/1998, the Brazilian Copyright Law.

Cogitare Enfermagem allows the author to hold the copyright of articles accepted for publication, without restrictions.

The articles published are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 - The attribution adopted by Cogitare Enfermagem is permitted:

  • Share - copy and redistribute the material in any media or format.
  • Adapt - remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  • Attribution - You must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do this in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that the licensor endorses it or approves of its use.
  • No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing something that the license allows.