Survey personal and disease characteristics of children with Cancer hospitalized in 17 Shahrivar hospital, Rasht
Introduction: Cancer is one of child diseases that has an incidence of ‎‏129‏‎ in ‎‏1‏‎ million ‎children and is still second reason for death of ‎‏1-14‏‎ years old children. The children who died...
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| description | Introduction: Cancer is one of child diseases that has an incidence of ‎‏129‏‎ in ‎‏1‏‎ million ‎children and is still second reason for death of ‎‏1-14‏‎ years old children. The children who died ‎because of cancer lost an average of ‎‏69.5‏‎ years of life time. Therefore, identification of ‎personal and disease characteristics may be a way for facilitating cancer prevention in ‎children. ‎
Objective: This study was conducted to determine personal and disease characteristics of ‎children with cancer.‎
Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on ‎‏80‏‎ children with cancer hospitalized in ‎oncology ward of ‎‏17‏‎ Shahrivar Hospital in Rasht between Farvardin ‎‏1380‏‎ to Esfand ‎‏1384‏‎ ‎which was selected by convenience sampling. Data collection instrument consisted of two ‎parts questionnaire including demographic and disease characteristics. Data were collected by ‎observation and documentation of patients records and analyzed by SPSS software. ‎ Results: The finding showed that majority of children was ‎‏5-9‏‎ years old (‎‏47‏‎.‎‏25%‏‎), boy (‎‏60%‏‎), ‎was born with NVD (‎‏97‏‎.‎‏5%‏‎), and was city resident (‎‏65%‏‎). ‎‏72‏‎.‎‏5‏‎ percent of parents had ‎‏1-2‏‎ ‎children. The majority of samples had fathers with Diploma (‎‏57‏‎.‎‏5%‏‎) that half of them were ‎worker. Also majority of hospitalized children had ALL (‎‏53‏‎.‎‏75%‏‎) and Lymphoma (‎‏11‏‎.‎‏25%‏‎). ‎Only ‎‏7‏‎.‎‏5‏‎ percent of them mentioned a positive familial history of cancer. ‎‏48‏‎.‎‏25‏‎ percent of ‎children hospitalized between ‎‏1-9‏‎ times and the majority (‎‏32‏‎.‎‏5%‏‎) of them had intra spine ‎chemotherapy for ‎‏0-5‏‎ times. ‎‏45‏‎ percent of children died by the time sampling done.
‎ Conclusion: This research showed that Hematologic cancers had highest incidence that have ‎high mortality rate contrast by recent treatment and diagnostic methods improvement. ‎Capability for this physical severe disease and the nurses can use education, consulting and ‎supporting roles to access these goals.‎ |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d84b484c003c4145b2f2c82d84cf67b72025-08-20T02:38:55ZengGuilan University of Medical SciencesJournal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery2588-37122588-37202009-04-011915155Survey personal and disease characteristics of children with Cancer hospitalized in 17 Shahrivar hospital, Rashtmahshid mirzaie0fatemeh yazdi1zahra navidi2 Introduction: Cancer is one of child diseases that has an incidence of ‎‏129‏‎ in ‎‏1‏‎ million ‎children and is still second reason for death of ‎‏1-14‏‎ years old children. The children who died ‎because of cancer lost an average of ‎‏69.5‏‎ years of life time. Therefore, identification of ‎personal and disease characteristics may be a way for facilitating cancer prevention in ‎children. ‎ Objective: This study was conducted to determine personal and disease characteristics of ‎children with cancer.‎ Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on ‎‏80‏‎ children with cancer hospitalized in ‎oncology ward of ‎‏17‏‎ Shahrivar Hospital in Rasht between Farvardin ‎‏1380‏‎ to Esfand ‎‏1384‏‎ ‎which was selected by convenience sampling. Data collection instrument consisted of two ‎parts questionnaire including demographic and disease characteristics. Data were collected by ‎observation and documentation of patients records and analyzed by SPSS software. ‎ Results: The finding showed that majority of children was ‎‏5-9‏‎ years old (‎‏47‏‎.‎‏25%‏‎), boy (‎‏60%‏‎), ‎was born with NVD (‎‏97‏‎.‎‏5%‏‎), and was city resident (‎‏65%‏‎). ‎‏72‏‎.‎‏5‏‎ percent of parents had ‎‏1-2‏‎ ‎children. The majority of samples had fathers with Diploma (‎‏57‏‎.‎‏5%‏‎) that half of them were ‎worker. Also majority of hospitalized children had ALL (‎‏53‏‎.‎‏75%‏‎) and Lymphoma (‎‏11‏‎.‎‏25%‏‎). ‎Only ‎‏7‏‎.‎‏5‏‎ percent of them mentioned a positive familial history of cancer. ‎‏48‏‎.‎‏25‏‎ percent of ‎children hospitalized between ‎‏1-9‏‎ times and the majority (‎‏32‏‎.‎‏5%‏‎) of them had intra spine ‎chemotherapy for ‎‏0-5‏‎ times. ‎‏45‏‎ percent of children died by the time sampling done. ‎ Conclusion: This research showed that Hematologic cancers had highest incidence that have ‎high mortality rate contrast by recent treatment and diagnostic methods improvement. ‎Capability for this physical severe disease and the nurses can use education, consulting and ‎supporting roles to access these goals.‎http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-243-118&slc_lang=en&sid=1individual characteristics disease characteristics children cancer |
| spellingShingle | mahshid mirzaie fatemeh yazdi zahra navidi Survey personal and disease characteristics of children with Cancer hospitalized in 17 Shahrivar hospital, Rasht Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery individual characteristics disease characteristics children cancer |
| title | Survey personal and disease characteristics of children with Cancer hospitalized in 17 Shahrivar hospital, Rasht |
| title_full | Survey personal and disease characteristics of children with Cancer hospitalized in 17 Shahrivar hospital, Rasht |
| title_fullStr | Survey personal and disease characteristics of children with Cancer hospitalized in 17 Shahrivar hospital, Rasht |
| title_full_unstemmed | Survey personal and disease characteristics of children with Cancer hospitalized in 17 Shahrivar hospital, Rasht |
| title_short | Survey personal and disease characteristics of children with Cancer hospitalized in 17 Shahrivar hospital, Rasht |
| title_sort | survey personal and disease characteristics of children with cancer hospitalized in 17 shahrivar hospital rasht |
| topic | individual characteristics disease characteristics children cancer |
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