Open AccessQuality of life of ostomates with the selected factors in a selected hospital of Delhi with a view to develop guidelines for the health professionals
Author(s) -
Aditi Sinha,
Harinderjeet Goyal,
Shailja Singh,
Shiv Pratap Singh Rana
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1075.58455
Subject(s) - medicine , nursing , quality of life (healthcare) , medline , family medicine , health professionals , health care , gerontology , law , economics , economic growth , political science
A correlational survey to assess the quality of life (QoL) of ostomates with selected factors in a selected hospital of Delhi and to develop guidelines for the health professionals to improve QoL of ostomates was undertaken during the year 2005-2007. The objectives of the study were as follows: (1) To assess QoL of ostomates (2) To identify the factors associated with QoL of ostomates (3) To seek relationship between selected factors and QoL of ostomates (4) To develop guidelines for the health professionals to improve QoL of ostomates.