Health education on the disease in patients with thyroid cancer the impact of uncertainty.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Health education on the disease in patients with thyroid cancer the impact of uncertainty [Keywords:] health education in patients with thyroid cancer, a sense of uncertainty in illness Uncertainty in illness is the lack of things to determine the capacity of disease-related [1]. Sense of uncertainty caused by the disease because patients have the following four areas: the diagnosis is not clear; the complex treatment and care; the lack of diagnosis and severity of disease-related information; unpredictable disease process and prognosis [2]. Classification of thyroid cancer because of its large, and each type of treatment and prognosis are not the same, and some treatments such as radiation therapy, neck lymph node dissection will affect the patient’s appearance and quality of life. The early stage of the disease in patients with thyroid cancer diagnosis, treatment and care, lack of understanding of knowledge, can not predict the therapeutic effect and the future life. Thus, uncertainty in illness prevalence, this experience will be accompanied by patient’s life, it brings negative emotions, not only interfere with patients seek information about the ability of disease, but also can lead to acts of degradation and interruption of treatment [ 3], seriously affecting patient quality of life. This study focused on health education for thyroid cancer patients the impact of uncertainty in illness. 1 Data and methods 1.1 General Information October 2004 to October 2006 in our hospital between tumor surgical hospitalization of 76 patients, all patients were diagnosed by pathology, age 23 to 84 years, with an average age (37.51 ± 1.21) years, The average length of stay (7.8 ± 0.5) d. 14 cases were male, female 62 cases; level of education: primary and secondary schools accounted for 35.2%, 36.8% middle school, high school, and accounted for 25.9% of secondary school, universities, accounting for 4.7%, illiteracy, 3.4%; Marital status: Marri