Qualidade de vida na quimioterapia
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2015-05-05
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A qualidade de vida do doente tem vindo a ganhar nas últimas décadas importância na prática médica, tanto humana como veterinária. Ainda que na medicina veterinária este conceito seja relativamente recente e a sua definição ainda não consensual a qualidade de vida tem vindo a ganhar relevância, tendo surgido nos últimos anos ferramentas e métodos que tentam avaliar a mesma e ultrapassar um dos maiores obstáculos neste área – a impossibilidade de ser o paciente a realizar a sua própria avaliação.
A quimioterapia, um dos tratamentos mais comuns para o cancro (cuja prevalência tem vindo a aumentar), devido aos efeitos secundários que muitas vezes provoca, é tida como um dos tipos de tratamento que mais pode afetar a qualidade de vida dos doentes.
Integraram este estudo 33 animais (25 canídeos e 8 felídeos), cujos proprietários preencheram um inquéritos sobre qualidade de vida e procurou-se perceber de que modo esta foi influenciada pela quimioterapia ao longo do tempo em que decorreu o tratamento, qual a posição dos proprietários perante o uso da quimioterapia antineoplásica como tratamento nos seus animais e a incidência dos efeitos secundários mais comuns, identificados pelos proprietários.
A maioria dos proprietários concorda com o uso da quimioterapia antineoplásica como tratamento considera a sua opção positiva, apesar de se ter registado uma diminuição da qualidade de vida média ao longo do tempo.
The quality of patient’s life has gained in the last decades relevance in medical practice, not only in human medicine, but also in veterinary medicine. Even though in veterinary medicine this concept is relatively recent and it’s definitions it’s not yet consensual, the quality of life is gaining relevance, emerging in the last years tools and methods that try to evaluate it and overcome one of the main obstacles – the impossibility of the patient to make its own quality of life evaluation. Chemotherapy, one of the most common cancer treatments ( whose prevalence has been raising), due to side effects that it can cause, it’s one of the treatment that can affects more the quality of life. Thirty three animals integrated this study (25 dogs and 8 cats), whose owners fulfilled a questionnaire about quality of life and we tried to understand how chemotherapy influences quality of life during treatment, what were the owner’s opinion about the use of antineoplastic chemotherapy as treatment of their animals and the incidence of the most common side effects, identified by the owners. The majority of the owners agrees with the use of antineoplastic chemotherapy as treatment and considers their option to treat as positive, even though a decrease in quality of life was recorded.
The quality of patient’s life has gained in the last decades relevance in medical practice, not only in human medicine, but also in veterinary medicine. Even though in veterinary medicine this concept is relatively recent and it’s definitions it’s not yet consensual, the quality of life is gaining relevance, emerging in the last years tools and methods that try to evaluate it and overcome one of the main obstacles – the impossibility of the patient to make its own quality of life evaluation. Chemotherapy, one of the most common cancer treatments ( whose prevalence has been raising), due to side effects that it can cause, it’s one of the treatment that can affects more the quality of life. Thirty three animals integrated this study (25 dogs and 8 cats), whose owners fulfilled a questionnaire about quality of life and we tried to understand how chemotherapy influences quality of life during treatment, what were the owner’s opinion about the use of antineoplastic chemotherapy as treatment of their animals and the incidence of the most common side effects, identified by the owners. The majority of the owners agrees with the use of antineoplastic chemotherapy as treatment and considers their option to treat as positive, even though a decrease in quality of life was recorded.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina Veterinária, Ciências Veterinárias
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Quimioterapia , Qualidade de vida , Bem-estar animal