Perceptions of Palliative Care: Demographics and Health Status Among the General Population in Florida and the United States.

Autor: Dyal BW; Department of Family, Community and Health System Science, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL, USA., Yoon SL; Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL, USA., Powell-Roach KL; Department of Community and Population Health, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA., Li DM; University of Florida Health Science Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA., Kittelson S; Division of Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA., Weaver M; College of Nursing, Biobehavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA., Krieger JL; College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA., Wilkie DJ; Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The American journal of hospice & palliative care [Am J Hosp Palliat Care] 2024 Apr; Vol. 41 (4), pp. 363-372. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 28.
DOI: 10.1177/10499091231186819
Abstrakt: Background: Palliative care (PC) helps maintain quality of life for seriously ill patients, yet, many Americans lack knowledge of PC.
Aim: To explore the relationships between knowledge of PC of individuals living in north-central Florida and throughout the United States.
Design: This cross-sectional survey with three sampling approaches, one was a community-engaged sample and two were panel respondent samples. Respondents and setting: Respondents of the Florida sample (n 1 = 329) and the community-engaged sample (n 2 = 100), were representative of the 23 Florida county general population. Respondents of the national sample (n = 1800) were adult members of a panel owned by a cloud-based survey platform.
Results: Young adults compared with adults (OR 1.62, 95% CI 1.14-2.28, P .007), middle-adults (OR 2.47, 95% CI 1.58-3.92, P < .001) and older-adults (OR 3.75, 95% CI 2.50-5.67, P < .001) were less likely to agree that the goal of PC is to help friends and family cope with a patient's illness, and that the goal of PC is to manage pain and other physical symptoms compared with adults (OR 1.67, 95% CI 1.20-2.30, P .002) middle-adults (OR 2.58, 95% CI 1.71-3.95, P < .001) and older-adults (OR 7.19, 95% CI 4.68-11.2, P < .001). Participants with greater rural identity (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.31-1.48, P < .001) were more likely to agree that accepting PC means giving up.
Conclusions: Increased knowledge of PC might be influenced through targeting educational interventions and educating the general population through social media use.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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