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• TITLE: Human Care Theory and Influences on the Life Quality Index of Cancer Patients in Household Life

  AUTHORS: Yali Sun, Ling Gao, Ying Dong, Ling Gong

  KEYWORDS: Community Nurses; Theory of Human Care; Patients with Cancer; Quality of Life; Happiness Index

  JOURNAL NAME: Engineering, Vol.5 No.10B, October 31, 2013

  ABSTRACT: To investigatetheinfluences of the application of human care theory on the life quality and happiness of cancer patients after they receiveda community nursing care which was implemented by the human care theory. The quality life and the happiness index of 93 patients with cancer living in the six communities in Jillin were assessed, the assessment of the life quality was based on a life quality scale (SF-36) and that of the happiness index was based on Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH). The community nurses cared for these patients by applying the theory of human care and the life quality and the happiness index of the patients were observed after the care. The results showed that there were significant differences in the score of 5 dimensions in the eight dimensions of the life quality between before the care and after the care (