Selected Factors Associated with Supportive Care Needs in Person with Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer

Abstract

This descriptive correlational research design aimed to study the correlations between selected factors and supportive care needs among patients with liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer. The subjects were composed of 132 patients with liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer who were treated at Chulalongkorn University and the Faculty of Medicine, Vajira Hospital, Navamindradhiraj University. The instrumentation consisted of a demographic data questionnaire, the supportive care need survey form, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Thai Version, the form for measuring the correlations between patients and primary caregivers, and the questionnaire on the symptoms of patients with
intrahepatic bile duct cancer divided into frequency, severity and discomfort. Data were analyzed by determining mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation. According to the findings, the patients with liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer were found to have moderate supportive care needs ( = 3.24, S.D = 0.78). Correlation analysis found frequency, severity and discomfort from symptoms, anxiety and depression to be positively correlated with patients’ supportive care needs with statistical significance at .05 (r = .36, .29, .24 and .28, respectively). The findings of this study can be used to plan care for patients with liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer to meet patients’ needs
effectively.