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According to APSCO research data, cancer distress is recorded in about half of the Romanian cancer inpatients, the maximum admissible level. In this context, creating a clinical practice guide in psycho-oncology is one of the first actions needed to be taken. This guide corroborate clinical experience from within the Romanian oncology system, psychosocial resources available to Romanian professionals in cancer care and best practice recommendations from psycho-oncology literature.
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The intervention scenarios presented here are consistent with care requirements implied by the oncology hospital system in Romania. The therapeutic act involves three structural stages initial, intermediate, final of psycho-oncological intervention, several therapeutic targets and cancer-specific intervention techniques being presented in detail for each stage. This is the first extensive interdisciplinary research in Romania focusing on psychosocial aspects of hospitalized adult cancer patients that includes data from a multi-center questionnaire screening and multivariate analysis.
According to the tumor location, our mixed sample includes adult oncology patients, with malignant and 78 with benign tumors. Results show that in our sample Based on our results, we propose the routine use of self-administered questionnaires for better identification of psychosocial needs. Cancer is one of the main causes of death in modern society after cardiovascular and brain-related diseases. The number of patients with malignant diseases is growing every year all over the world.
The psychosocial, moral and ethical problems of oncology patients are complicated and difficultly solved. One of the most important principles of palliative care is to work in a multidisciplinary team, which consists not only of medical experts but also of social workers, clergymen, volunteers, as well as the relatives of the patient who play an exceptional role in the palliative team.
