Implementación del LCP en español en Argentina y en España: Descripción de las percepciones de los profesionales ante el final de la vida.

TRIPODORO, V., LUXARDO, N., VELOSO, V., PÉREZ, M., MARTÍN ROSELLÓ, M., DE LA OSSA SENDRA, M.J., VIDAL ESPAÑA, F., HANNAM, S., CAZORLA GONZÁLEZ, R., ROSSÚA RODRÍGUEZ, M., ALANZ DE LA TORRE, E. Y DE SIMONE, G.

MEDICINA PALIATIVA

ARAN EDICIONES

Lugar: Comunidad de Madrid, España; Año: 2013

1134-248X

Health professionals? perceptions on EoL can influence communication with patients and families. Although in Palliative Care (PC) death is expected, emotions of varying intensity are generated. The fears and difficulties encountered in facing this subject will be different according to previous personal experiences.  The LCP proposes a quality programme of care for people at EoL. Both in Argentina, PALLIUM and in Spain, Cudeca, are implementing a Spanish version of LCP. Aim: describe the perceptions of professionals concerning EoL, and the influence of the LCP in a Latin-American (LA) cultural context. Specific aims: 1-identify the implementation of the LCP (version 12) in Argentina and Spain. 2-analyse the meanings that professionals assigned to care the dying, communication, teamwork, documentation and the attitudes to EoL. Method: A cross sectional exploratory description study of two hospitable team of PC trained in the use of the LCP in Argentina and Spain, by structured questionnaire and 1 open question about perceptions of needs and conditions of professionals using the LCP in both countries. Results: 1 -In Spain all participants work in PC units of the Andalusian Plan for PC. Argentina does not have a National Plan of PC. 2 -Module 1: identified associations: a) advances in the intervention in EoL; b) expectations of training in the use of the LCP; c) doubts and fears in the application of the LCP d) the position of awareness in the interventions. Module 2-Spain n:23 Argentina n:112. Specific categories were explored in both countries being the most relevant the full agreement of 73.7% of the respondents regarding the indicators that reflect the quality indicators of the tool. In Spain, the full agreement reached 91.4% keeping in mind the specific PC training of professionals and de PC National Program. Argentina evidences the lack of specific training in PC before the implementation of the LCP / PAMPA (91%) Conclusion: This study aimed to explore for the first time in a Spanish-speaking context, both in Spain and in Latin America, the subjective conditions of health care providers wishing to implement a systematic sequence of EoL care mainly used in the Anglo-Saxon cultural context.