Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

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People's Perception About Suffering at the
End of Life
Sofica Bistriceanu, MD, Ph-D student
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Background people must
die in dignity. The end of life could be in
suffering for a long time, affecting both
patient and his/ her family. These elements
modify the quality of life, finaly bad memories
remaining over time.
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Aim to reveal people's perception
about the end of life in suffering, how could
they manage it.
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Material/ Methods. A qualitative study was
performed in author's office, this spring. The
author used her Questionnaire ( Open ended
Questions ) combined with Interview for 97
visitors who agreed to colaborate in this
study in this way their perceptions about these
elements which could compose the end of lifewere
explored. 95CI was constructed for relevant
proportions and their differences.
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Results -in their opinion the end of life in
suffering could be solved by sustainable
emotional support offered by family (51 ) as a
form of respect for himself / herself when
necessary, a payment for these servicies at
home to other qualified people is required
(37,11 ) asylum (10,30) or private
specialised units ( 1,03 ) may be a solution.
. Some of them ( 2,06 ) would prefer euthanasia.
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• 36,08 have Bachelor's degree.
• mean age in this group
• women 53,11 men54,38.
• 56,70 are women.
• 97,93 are married,
• average age of marital status 29,13 years.

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Conclusion The end of life in suffering usually
affects family. If it is for long time, the
annoyance of their members involved in care
could be notified some of them would prefer to
pay other persons/ institutions for these
services. Euthanasia is the expresion of mental
activity's disaster.
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Love, standard services at home at the end of
life in suffering are preferable Anticipatory
forms of payment made by yourself / your family
for these possible medical conditions, must be
taken into account.
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New institutions could solve these problems
which affects us, in order to maintain love over
time, mental health and last but not least, to
go away in peace.