Autogestión de los síntomas asociados con el tratamiento de quimioterapia en personas con enfermedad oncológica

Abstract

The chemotherapy stands out as one of the main therapeutic approaches for the cancer treatment, causing patients side effects that they need to learn to deal with. Thus, we tried to study the phenomenon of self-management of symptoms in these patients and to develop a computer application that allows promoting, monitoring and supporting the process of self-management of symptoms, as well as the management of the therapeutic regime, of people with oncological disease, undergoing treatment. chemotherapy. To this end, two stages were outlined: in the first, systematic reviews of the literature were carried out for different purposes, in order to gather all the necessary and current knowledge, for the development of the second stage of the investigation process. In the second stage, the development of an application that responds to the outlined objectives is presented. The first prototype of the iGestSaúde: QT module app is currently being developed, based on the entire research path presented here.