Volunteerism in Palliative Care A Study on Motivation of Palliative Care Volunteers in Calicut District, Kerala

Abstract

Palliative care is the active total care of the patients and their families by multi professional team at a time when the patient’s disease is no long responsive to curative treatment and life expectancy is relatively short. Volunteering involves community time and energy to provide a service that highlights someone, society or the community without expecting financial and material rewards. Now a days the terminally ill patients are increasing day by day but our state is not fully equipped to provide effective services to those suffered through the governmental machinery. The volunteers are increasingly being relief up on to provide home based care people living with terminal illness. Especially the pain and palliative care society formed in Calicut and followed to 37 palliative clinics functioning under the society. Yet it is not clear what motivates people to volunteer as care givers. The enquiry into this motivates will bring out an insight to improve the program and to reduce attention among volunteers. This research Intends to assess the motivation of palliative care volunteers in Kozhikode district. research design of the study is descriptive in nature and information collected from the volunteers who are associated with different palliative care units in Calicut district of Kerala. Researcher selected 50 samples from 10 palliative care units by using simple random sampling techniques. The result of the study shows that majority of the volunteers working in different units are belonging to younger adults and most of them were males. This study clearly shows that the volunteers are motivated intrinsically and not showing any persuasion behind their volunteerism. Muhammed Ashraf TM | Anas M K "Volunteerism in Palliative Care: A Study on Motivation of Palliative Care Volunteers in Calicut District, Kerala" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd41236.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comhumanities-and-the-arts/other/41236/volunteerism-in-palliative-care-a-study-on-motivation-of-palliative-care-volunteers-in-calicut-district-kerala/muhammed-ashraf-tm

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Muhammed Ashraf TM | Anas M K

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Muhammed Ashraf TM (2021). Volunteerism in Palliative Care A Study on Motivation of Palliative Care Volunteers in Calicut District, Kerala. International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, 5(4), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-695657