Fumi Hayashi Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Schizophrenic patients; Cancer; Symptomatic
Toyo Eiwa University, Kanagawa, Japan
Fumi Hayashi belongs to department of psychitry and her interest are Cancer; Symptomaticand her one of the publication is Health-related quality of life in Japanese lung cancer patients as determined by two questionnaires: The HRQOL-20 and the EORTC QLQ-C30
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Harumi Arai, Fumi Hayashi, Mami Ueda and Misako Hisamatsu
Background: This study aimed to grasp the current situations of the hospitalized schizophrenic patients with cancer at the prefectural level for the first time in Japan. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted with nurses who had experiences in taking care of schizophrenic patients suffering from cancer whose primary complaint was mental and behavioral disorders as diagnosed according to the ICD-10 criteria. Results: There were 90 thirty-year-old or older schizophrenic patients with cancer hospitalized at mental hospitals in prefecture A, including 44 men and 46 women. Patients sixty-five years or older had been hospitalized longer than those who were younger. Conclusion: More than 70% of schizophrenic patients with cancer at ment... view moreĀ»