Willingness of advanced cancer patients to receive palliative care and its determinants: A cross-sectional study in Northern Tanzania

Grace Leonard Mushi; Furaha Serventi; Julius Pius Alloyce; Vivian Frank Saria; Xianghua Xu; Khalid Khan; Qinqin Cheng; Yongyi Chen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0290377

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Willingness of advanced cancer patients to receive palliative care and its determinants: A cross-sectional study in Northern Tanzania

Grace Leonard Mushi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: gracemushy2@gmail.com

Affiliations Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China, Department of Nursing, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0104-1042

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Furaha Serventi,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
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Julius Pius Alloyce,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0389-0315

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Vivian Frank Saria,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
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Xianghua Xu,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China
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Khalid Khan,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China
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Qinqin Cheng,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China
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Yongyi Chen

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha City, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China, Nursing Department, Hunan Cancer Hospital and The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Changsha, Hunan Province, China
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Willingness of advanced cancer patients to receive palliative care and its determinants: A cross-sectional study in Northern Tanzania

Grace Leonard Mushi,
Furaha Serventi,
Julius Pius Alloyce,
Vivian Frank Saria,
Xianghua Xu,
Khalid Khan,
Qinqin Cheng,
Yongyi Chen

Published: October 5, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290377

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