出版社：Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters at Ribeirão Preto - USP
摘要：The present study evaluated global well-being and distress behavior among caregivers and the diffi culties faced by physicians, as subsidy to the proposition of a new service protocol for an ambulatory of palliative care. In the fi rst phase, the global well-being and distress behavior indicators of ten patients’ caregivers were evaluated using the General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ) and the Impact of Event Scale - Revised (IES-R), respectively. In the second phase, physicians were interviewed about their opinions concerning palliative care and the diffi culties of referring patients to the ambulatory. The negative Spearman correlation between the results of both instruments applied to caregivers, suggests that higher levels of distress are associated with lower global well-being scores. By physicians the demand for greater integration between curative and palliative ambulatories was verifi ed, what would increase fl uidity amongst the teams and the maintenance of bonds between patients, families and professionals.
