Volume : 7, Issue : 2, February - 2018

TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING SIDE EFFECTS OF CHEMOTHERAPY AMONG CAREGIVERS OF PATIENTS RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY

Ms. Christina Ramdinsangi, Mrs. Seema Singh

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Many anticancer drugs are made to kill growing cells. But certain normal get affected too, this damage to normal cells causes side effects of chemotherapy.</span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">Objectives:</span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> - 1. </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">To assess the knowledge regarding side effects of chemotherapy among caregivers of patients receiving chemotherapy </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">2. To associate between the knowledge score&nbsp; with selected demographic variables. </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp;</span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-IN">Methods and Materials: The study was a descriptive study conducted among </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">30 caregivers of chemotherapy patients from A.V.B.R.H. Sawangi (Meghe) Wardha. Structured knowledge questionnaire were used to collect the data.</span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-IN">Results:</span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">The knowledge score&nbsp; 10 (33.3%) of caregivers of chemotherapy patient were having poor&nbsp; level of knowledge score, 5 (16.67%) were having average level of knowledge score,&nbsp; (50%)&nbsp; of caregivers of chemotherapy patient were having good level of knowledge score level of knowledge score&nbsp; and none of the caregivers were having both good nor excellent level of knowledge score.</span></b>< /> <b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">< clear="all" style="page-eak-before:always;mso-eak-type:section-eak" /> </span></b></p>