Abstract

CASTANEDA HERNANDEZ, Álvaro Hernando. QUALITY OF LIFE AND ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT ON PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ONCOLOGIC DISEASE. Rev Cuid [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.1, pp.906-913. ISSN 2216-0973.  https://doi.org/10.15649/cuidarte.v6i1.146.

Introduction: Cancer experience affects the dimensions of quality of life; the adding of an oncological treatment is a matter that has not been described in the scientific literature, however this aspect can be related to the levels quality of life of the people suffering from chronic oncologic diseases, mainly during the first months of diagnosis. Materials and Methods: Correlative descriptive research, quantitative boarding and cross-cutting. 158 participants with chronic diseases that were diagnosed with a life expectancy between 0 and 6 months and who assist to a third level health care institution in Bucaramanga, Colombia. The patient version of the quality of life scale and the Instrument to measure the facts that influence the adding of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments on people with high risk of cardiovascular diseases were employed. Descriptive statistic and the linear correlation coefficient of Pearson were utilized into analysis. Results: Women were majority in the participants' sample, older than 60, from low social strata, housewives, mainly affected with breast, cervix, and skin cancer; 15 % of illiteracy was observed. Quality of life showed an average of 104.17 (SD 16.71). 51% were ranked under low risk and 41.75 were ranked medium risk in order to avoid adherence. A weak positive relation was found between the two variables, r= 232 p=0.003. Discussion: Linear correlation between the variables is less than in other conditions of chronic non-communicable and chronic infectious diseases. Conclusions: There is a weak relation between the global sum of the variables and the dimensions of each one.

Keywords : Medication Adherence; Neoplasms.

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