Assessing quality of life in palliative care

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Background: Patients with palliative care concerns must be admitted to the hospital because they unable to be handled at home or due to a lack of competent family care.

Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to assess the QoL of patients receiving hospice care.

Materials and Method: Throughout the study period (1-12-2020), the descriptive study design proved beneficial in achieving the study's aims (25-2-2021).

A possibility (simple random sample) of (N=135) patients, (47) male and (88) female from Teaching Hospitals in the Mosul city.

Results: According to the data, nearly half of the patients (59%) had poor awareness about palliative care, only 29 (21.5 percent) had high knowledge, while 47 (34.8 percent) had fair knowledge.

Conclusion: According to the study's findings, patients in Iraq are unaware of hospice care.

This article stresses the importance of creating hospice care services and there is a poor quality of life with regard to hospice care.