SELF-CARE BEHAVIOR AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG CANCER PATIENTS WHO ARE ON CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT AT TIKUR ANBESA SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL

Background: Cancer affects millions of people in the world each year, leading many to face
the difficult road of chemotherapy. When cancer patients are ill-prepared for chemotherapy
treatments, they often tend to envision the worst-case scenarios, possibly making the
anticipation more difficult than the event itself. In Ethiopia evidence on self-care behavior on
chemotherapy and associated factors is limited. So this study is aimed to fill the gap.
Objectives: To assess self-care behavior and associated factors among cancer patients who
are on chemotherapy treatment at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2018. Methods: Institution based cross-sectional study design was conducted on sample
study of 254 study participants at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital using simple random
sampling techniques. Face to face interview with structured questionnaire was used to collect
data. Prior to data collection 5% pretest was done to ensure the quality of data. Data was
entered in to EpI –data version 4.2 and exported into SPSS versions 24 for analysis.
Descriptive statistics used to describe the study participants with major independent and
dependent variables’ including frequencies, proportion, mean and standard deviation was
demonstrated by using tables, graphs and texts. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression
was used to look for association between predictors and dependent variable. Crude and
adjusted odds ratios with the corresponding 95% confidence intervals were computed