Open AccessAssessment of psychosocial distress among the palliative care patients in Wardha District of Maharashtra
Author(s) -
Nikhil Dhande,
Sunil Kumar,
Ashwini Bolane
Publication year - 2020
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/ijpc.ijpc_114_19
Subject(s) - medicine , psychosocial , palliative care , likert scale , distress , feeling , anxiety , family medicine , nursing , psychiatry , clinical psychology , psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology
Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS) is one of the various tools, available for the evaluation of the effectiveness of palliative services, having 10item multidimensional questionnaire, designed to assess the physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and practical aspects of patients with various sufferings. In this study, we had assessed psychosocial distress among the patients of a palliative care clinic of a rural teaching hospital at Wardha district.