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A survey of the awareness of palliative care among community medical staff in Chengdu area

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DOI: 10.25236/icebfm.2019.113

Author(s)

Mo Linqi, Peng Aonan, Wang Xinyue, Zhang Zehua

Corresponding Author

Mo Linqi

Abstract

Through surveying questionnaires, the understanding of palliative care among medical personnel in community hospitals in Chengdu, acceptance of palliative care training, and the mastery of palliative care knowledge will provide to give suggestions for the training of palliative care workers and community promotion. Ten community hospitals were randomly selected from five administrative districts in Chengdu, and 139 community medical personnel were conducted questionnaire surveys. Among respondents, 53.1% had heard of "palliative care." The results of the "PCQN Scale" survey showed that the accuracy of dimension one is 36.2%, the accuracy of dimension two is 49.62%, and the accuracy of dimension three is 20.4%.And the impact of five factors on the education and training of medical personnel involved in palliative care Statistics. There was a significant difference in academic analysis (P<0.05).These five factors include Palliative care knowledge score, confidence in implementing palliative care, grasp the level of palliative care, willingness to work in palliative care, feeling comfortable or not when talking with patients or patients’ family members on the topic of death. The community medical staff in Chengdu has a low awareness of palliative care. The willingness of medical personnel to participate in palliative care education is influenced by many factors.

Keywords

Chengdu, community medical staff, palliative care, awareness