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Volume 6, Issue 4(Suppl) Transl Med 2016
ISSN: 2161-1025, an open access journal
Page 78
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Translation Medicine & World Oncologists 2016
November 28-30, 2016
Translational Medicine and Oncologists Meet
November 28-30, 2016 San Francisco, USA
14th Annual Conference on
Psycho-oncology: A psychosocial support and intervention model
Veronica Robert, Catalina Alvarez and Fernanda Valdivieso
Clinica Las Condes, Chile
Nowadays, we face a world with a technologic environment changing and advancing constantly, which, in the oncologic scope,
implies more advanced investigations and therapies, observing a constant evolution in the management and symptomatic
control of the oncologic illness. This scenario implies a higher frequency of patients who suffer its consequences within a short,
medium or long time limit, involving permanent adaptation processes. It was already by the mid of the past century that the psycho-
oncology subspecialty arises so as to ameliorate the psychosocial adjustment, the oncologic person has to suffer from its multiple
effects. Cancer illness considers an impact that transcends not only physical shock but also an emotional process, considering the
person as a whole, with personal, familiar and environmental aspects, allowing us to see this illness from a biopsychosocial view.
An affective climate is generated creating a complex questioning and deep changes in the various contexts where the patient is set
in. The fact of losing what is most important as health, with all its consequences, the person experiences the oncologic mourning.
Is this the way how the patient confronts the disease and his/her environment? The distress experience within the process of this
illness can bring out negative effects for the patient’s health and quality of life. Moreover, the developing of psychiatric disorders is
more frequent in oncologic patients than in patients who do not suffer this illness. The major vulnerability of the oncology patients
to develop a psychiatric disease is an important issue the medical staff has to take into account, so they require special care and be
aware of this patient’s emotional needs. In the present article, an interventional model is presented and supported by the emotional
aspects studied in the oncologic patient. Relevant aspects are presented and developed the patient’s general evaluation, an emotional
support structure and the required interventions to fulfill the aims of it.
Transl Med 2016, 6:4(Suppl)
Nutritional status of women of reproductive age in a selected char of Rangpur district
Md Zahid Hasan Khan
MPH Northern University, Bangladesh
An observational cross-sectional study was carried out at Rangpur district in Bangladesh to assess nutritional status of
reproductive aged women residing in char area with a sample size 200. Face to face interview was carried out with the semi-
structured questionnaire. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria and
written consent was taken prior to interview. Nutritional status was determined according to BMI cut off value for Asian population.
Descriptive as well as inferential statistics were used to present data. Mean±SD age of respondents was 34.27±8.60. More than half
(67%) of the respondents were illiterate and housewife (84%). Mean±SD income of respondents was 5700.71±282.89 per month.
Underweight, normal and overweight were 67%, 30% and 3% respectively. Most respondents took rice 2-3 times/day. Vegetables
and soybean were taken randomly. Lentil was taken daily. Arthritis, headache, skin disease was more common. Statistical significant
association was found between nutritional status and age group (p<0.05), education (p<0.05), occupation (p<0.05) and monthly
income (p≤0.05). Half of the respondents suffered from underweight and most of them income was very low. Income generating
capacity should be increased as well as effective nutrition education programme must be instituted.