Status Quo and the Influencing Factors of Practice Capability of Palliative Care Among Health-care Professionals in Oncology in Hubei Province
Objective To explore the status quo of practice level of palliative care among oncological healthcare professionals and analyze the influencing factors.Methods A stratified random cluster sam-pling method was employed to select 1,198 oncological healthcare professionals as subjects from Sep-tember to November 2023.Survey was conducted with self-assessment scale for palliative care,self-per-ceived scale for pain assessment,knowledge and confidence,self-competency scale for work related to death,and revised interdisciplinary collaboration index scale.Results The overall score for practice level of palliative care among oncological healthcare professionals was(6 7.3 7±1 2.7 7).Regression analysis results indicated that educational background,affection for the work of palliative care,interdisciplinary collaboration ability,pain assessment ability,and death coping ability were the main influencing factors(all P＜0.05).Conclusions The practice level of palliative care among oncological healthcare profes-sionals is at a moderate level and influenced by various factors such as interdisciplinary collaboration abili-ty,pain assessment capability,and death coping ability.Therefore,administrators should focus on these relevant factors to enhance the caring ability of professionals,thereby improving the quality of life of ter-minal patients.
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