Author(s): AbdolrahimHazini, HamrazPazoki, SaeedMohammad Pour,Ghazaleh Salehabadi,Reza Jahanshahi, Tina Tajfar, Hosniyeh Soleymanzadeh
Introduction: Palliative care is fundamental to health and patient rights. The aim of palliative care is to improve quality of life in advanced illness and reducing the pain. It is characterized as holistic approach which includes all aspects such as physical, emotional, social and spiritual. Our purpose of this study is to report a successful experience of utilizing palliative care in Golestan province. Materials and Method. This qualitative research was conducted in Golestan province, Iran using content analysis method. In this study, data was gathered from a 90 minute semi-structured interview with the founder of Golestan’s Mehr club. The interview was recorded and transcribed afterwards. Results: Data analysis on the implementation of palli-ative care showed the themes ‘simplification of treatment, crisis management, costreduction, home care, and barriers against palliative care’. Some codes were repeated in the interviews such as having a trustee, avoiding confusion and relief. The inter-view reported that cancer, in addition of physical suffering, cause social, familial and financial trauma. Conclusion: Our findings demonstrated that palliative care will result cost reduction in hospital and medical expenses for cancer and terminally ill patients in Golestan province. It is essential for health practitioners to utilize pallia-tive care as localized guideline to improve quality of life in advanced illness such as end stage cancers.
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