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Uluslararası Hakemli Hemşirelik Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol.2019, no.15, pp.185-201, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
It is a known fact that the frequency of cancer
worldwide cancer rises dramatically day by day. However, it
has been able to prolong the life expectancy for cancer patients with many different developments in our current world.
Even so the expected lifetime increase is a positive situation,
the concept of “living with cancer” which confronts this point leads all the health professionals as well as the nurses to
new searches. Living with cancer brings with it the need to
live in comfort which is right for every individual. Oncology
patients faced with many problems related to cancer and its
treatment are the groups of patients who are under the greatest
threat because of physical, psychosocial, environmental and
sociocultural comfort areas effecting negatively. These patients comfort levels are reduced because they are frequently
encountered with physical (nausea, alopecia), psychospiritual
(anxiety, depression), sociocultural (cease of employment, sexual dysfunction) and environmental (isolation, loss of interest)symptoms. However, nurses have important duties such
as comfort and maintaining comfort in oncology patient care.
The comfort care aimed at the holistic care approach, the core
of nursing care, is theorized by Kolcaba. Based on Comfort
Theory; it is necessary to use the comfort care which is defined as the refreshing, calmness, peacefulness, reconciliation
and experience of coming from the problems by meeting the
human needs in cancer patients. In this review, comfort care
and nursing will be dealt with in oncology patients according
to Comfort Theory.