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Why/How did the researchers think it was important to do this study?
According to the article “Patients’ quality of life during active cancer treatment: a qualitative study,” the quality of life of patients has become an important objective that has drawn the interest of researchers when it comes to patient care on the oncology side. Studies that have been conducted have only focused on how progress in oncology has caused patients to expand their survival time, but not on the patient’s quality of care which is the purpose of this study they conducted (Sibeoni et al., 2018).
The study was conducted in oncology departments in three different university hospitals, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, and Avicenne Hospital, by a psychologist and two psychiatrists. A qualitative method was used in this study, and data were collected from individual interviews as well. The data for this study was conducted from November 2014 through June 2015, and the participants included individuals 18 years and older, who have been treated for at least 6 months and are able to communicate French. The interviews that were conducted lasted from 60 to 90 minutes. Most importantly all the participants provided written consent to participate in this study (Sibeoni et al., 2018).
What did their study do that those other studies did not do?
The difference between this study and all the other ones that have been conducted would be that the purpose of this study was the quality of care the patients receive. This study consisted of 30 different patients of different ages. The main things the patients were asked were what impacted their life in a negative way during their treatment, and what positively affected their life during the treatment. This study helps us all especially the physicians realize what the patients go through while they are being treated, and what can be done to make these patients feel better. When it comes to patients who are being treated for cancer, health care staff should be more concerned when it comes to who supports the patient as well as being able to develop a trusting relationship with the patient (Sibeoni et al., 2018).
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