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Differences in symptom clusters identified using occurrence rates versus symptom severity ratings in patients at the end of radiation therapy.
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- Differences in symptom clusters based on multidimensional symptom experience and symptom burden in stroke patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Social relationships and their associations with affective symptoms of women with breast cancer: A scoping review.PloS one · 2022Article
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- Symptom Clusters in Patients With Gastrointestinal Cancers Using Different Dimensions of the Symptom Experience.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2019Article
- Differences in symptom clusters before and twelve months after breast cancer surgery.European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society · 2018Article
- Stability of Symptom Clusters in Patients With Breast Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2018Article
- Differences in Symptom Clusters Identified Using Ratings of Symptom Occurrence vs. Severity in Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2017Article
- Differences in symptom clusters identified using symptom occurrence rates versus severity ratings in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society · 2017Article
- Symptom clusters during palliative chemotherapy and their influence on functioning and quality of life.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2017Article
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- A Conceptual Model of Psychoneurological Symptom Cluster Variation in Women with Breast Cancer: Bringing Nursing Research to Personalized Medicine.Current pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine · 2013Article
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Abstract
The purposes of this study were to identify the number and types of symptom clusters using yes/no responses from the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale, identify the number and types of symptom clusters using severity scores from the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale, compare the identified symptom clusters derived using severity scores to those derived using occurrence ratings, and evaluate for differences in symptom cluster severity scores between patients with breast and prostate cancer at the end of radiation therapy. Separate exploratory factor analyses were performed to determine the number of symptom clusters based on symptom occurrence rates and symptom severity ratings. Although specific symptoms within each symptom cluster were not identical, 3 very similar symptom clusters (ie, "mood-cognitive" symptom cluster, "sickness-behavior" symptom cluster, "treatment-related" symptom cluster) were identified regardless of whether occurrence rates or severity ratings were used to create the symptom clusters at the end of radiation therapy. However, the factor solution derived using the severity ratings fit the data better. Significant differences in severity scores for all 3 symptom clusters were found between patients with breast and prostate cancer. For all 3 symptom clusters, the patients with breast cancer had higher symptom cluster severity scores than the patients with prostate cancer.
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