Estrategia de intervención para fortalecer los cuidados paliativos en el Centro de Salud del Cantón Zaruma

Abstract

Abstract: Background: Palliative care improves the lives of patients and families, who face life-threatening diseases and health-related suffering. (WHO, 2016). Objective: Develop an intervention strategy to strengthen palliative care in the Zaruma canton health center. Methods: Quasi-experimental study, the population consisted of 4 doctors, 3 nurses and an administrative manager, a knowledge test was applied to 20 patients with palliative needs to whom the Edmonton symptom scale was applied. Student's t test was used for the analysis. Results: the research evaluated the degree of implementation of the palliative care clinical practice guideline, which was medium, the level of knowledge of the health personnel was very high, presence and intensity of symptoms, with lack of well-being, nerves, depression and exhaustion. The intervention was effective with a P less than 0.05, statistically significant. Conclusions: an intervention strategy on palliative care knowledge of health personnel and the control of the presence and intensity of symptoms in patients with palliative needs was designed, demonstrating its effectiveness.