Analyze of families of suffering and pain patients towards persistent therapy

Abstract

Introduction. In the last decades of our century, in Poland and around the world there has been a lot of interest in the subject of euthanasia. In addition, there is also a problem of persistent therapy, which is present in Poland for quite a short time. For a large part of our society, this is an unknown concept, which came across by accident, society is not fully aware of its meaning. Therefore, making the society aware of persistent therapy problem and its essence is both important and extremely difficult. Nevertheless, topic of death is an inseparable part of our lives and it shouldn’t be missed.

Taking up this topic makes it easier for us to come to terms with the passing of loved ones and soothes our emotions that arise in the face of tragedy.

Aim. Main goal of this work is attitude analyse of families of suffering and pain patients towards persistent therapy.

Material and methods. The subject of the research are the attitudes of families of suffering and pain patients towards persistent therapy. For the purposes of the study, the diagnostic survey method was used. The research tool was the author's questionnaire.

Results. There is a dependence between age of subjects and knowledge of persistent therapy concept. That can be said that the topic of persistent therapy is a fairly new topic and perhaps that is why older people have not come across it before. Also, the dependence between level of education and knowledge of persistent therapies has been shown. The largest number of people giving the correct answer is in the group with higher education.

Conclusions. The analysis of the collected data gave results that show the attitudes of families towards persistent therapy. All the hypotheses in this work have been confirmed. It follows from the above that the presented attitudes of patients' families towards persistent therapy result from ignorance, lack of awareness and insufficient communication with the staff.