masterThesis
Características psicosociales de las personas mayores de 18 años con enfermedad oncológica que reiteran eutanasia en un hospital de alta complejidad de Bogotá, Colombia entre el 2015 y 2018
Autor
Meza Polo, Milagro Isabel
Rivera Alvarado, Shirley
Institución
Resumen
Introduction: in 2012 in Colombia, approximately 104 people died every day from oncological disease and 196 people became ill from cancer (1). For the year 2015, the protocol for the application of the euthanasia procedure was developed, where resolutions and decrees are generated together with the decriminalization of euthanasia based on the ruling T-970 of the Constitutional Court (2). It is in our interest to characterize the population groups with a diagnosis of terminal oncological disease that request and repeat euthanasia, to determine the characteristics of the personality type, and the psychosocial environment of which this individual is a part, which would allow as a care unit Palliative improve service delivery to patients at the end of life. Methods: cross sectional study. Results: The oncology patients evaluated had a median age of 60 years, where 75% of the patients were men with terminal stages of the disease. The reasons for denial of euthanasia were 100% due to affective disorders. The repeated cause of request for euthanasia by patients was pain and dyspnea. 50% had to type A personality and the remaining 50% had type B personality. Conclusions: The repeated cause of request for euthanasia in cancer patients with the terminal stage of the disease, with a median age of 60 years, is generally due to refractory pain and dyspnea to palliative treatment offered by the multidisciplinary team.