Pacientų sergančių metastaziniais ilgųjų kaulų navikais gyvenimo kokybės vertinimas

The objective of the thesis: to evaluate patients’ who are ill with metastasic tumor of long bones (os longum) and have an X-ray – confirmed diagnose of pathological bone break comfort of living. Tasks for the research:

1. To examine patients’ who are ill with metastasic tumor of long bones and have an X-ray – confirmed diagnose of pathological bone break comfort of living, singularities of nursing and their change during the term of research.
2. To compare comfort of living and singularities of nursing of patients’ who are ill with metastasic tumor of long bones and have an X-ray – confirmed diagnose of pathological bone break with those of the control group.
3. To determine factors having impact on comfort of living and nursing of patients’ who are ill with metastasic tumor of long bones and have an X-ray – confirmed diagnose of pathological bone break.
4. To supply with the recommendations for development of nursing of the patients ill with metastasic tumor of long bones. Exploratory group – patients of Orthopedics and Trauma Clinics at the Kaunas University of Medicine Clinics ill with metastasic tumor of long bones and have an X-ray – confirmed diagnose of pathological bone break. Control group (control) - patients of Orthopedics and Trauma Clinics at the Kaunas University of Medicine Clinics suffering from analogous break of long bone but in absence of metastasic tumor of long bones. Results: After summing the collected data up and analyzing it a conclusion was drawn that the general comfort of living of exploratory group made no significant changes. In the acute after-trauma period average of general comfort of living was 3,34 and 5-6 months after it was 4,24. The exploratory group’s general average of comfort of living was better (3,34) if compared to the general average of comfort of living of those from the control group – 2,45 (p<0,05). 5-6 months passed from a trauma general the control group’s average of comfort of living was better (5,57) than the exploratory group’s general average of comfort of living (4,24, p<0,05).