Quality of life issues identified by palliative care clients using two tools.
Reported are issues impacting upon the Quality of Life (QoL) of 59 palliative care clients within a district nursing service. These issues reinforce the emerging conceptualisation of QoL as being subjective and multidimensional. The issues were identified during a trial of two QoL assessment and measurement tools, the Client Generated Index (CGI) and the McGill Quality of Life (MQOL). In this era of considerable concern about QoL for the terminally ill, the article's intent is to present the QoL issues identfied, the grades of impact and priority for improvement of the issues according to the clients, and to discuss these aspects. This information can inform the assessment of palliative care clients (the CGI tool was found ideal for such an assessment), and may also inform further research on the QoL of palliative care clients.
Lewis
Sue
S
Palliative Care, Royal District Nursing Service South Australia Inc.
Bridge
Marie
M
Roughton
Di
D
Barelds
Janine
J
Brenton
Sava
S
Cotter
Sherree
S
Hagebols
Mary-Lou
ML
Woolman
Kirsty
K
Annells
Merilyn
M
Koch
Tina
T
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires