ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management2017
Differences in Symptom Clusters Identified Using Ratings of Symptom Occurrence vs. Severity in Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy.
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Descriptors and Predictors of Burden and Information Needs on Symptom Self-management in Thai Patients With Lung Cancer and Their Family Caregivers During Palliative Radiotherapy
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Symptom burden and clusters during chemotherapy in patients with lung cancer.World journal of surgical oncology · 2024Article
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- Identifying central symptom clusters and correlates in patients with lung cancer post-chemotherapy: A network analysis.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2024Article
- Symptom clusters in oncology outpatients: stability and consistency across a cycle of chemotherapy.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2024Article
- Symptom clusters in outpatients with cancer using different dimensions of the symptom experience.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Article
- HIV Symptom Clusters are Similar Using the Dimensions of Symptom Occurrence and Distress.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2022Article
- Changes in older adults' life space during lung cancer treatment: A mixed methods cohort study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Effect of Refined Perioperative Nursing on the Efficacy of Noninvasive Ventilation in Elderly Patients with Lung Cancer and Respiratory Failure.Journal of oncology · 2022Article
- Measurement of patients' acceptable symptom levels and priorities for symptom improvement in advanced lung cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- Symptom Clustering and Its Effect on Functional Status in Lymphoma Patients.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2020Article
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Abstract
contextAn important question in symptom clusters research is whether the number and types of symptom clusters vary based on the specific dimension of the symptom experience used to create the clusters.
objectivesGiven that lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy (CTX) report an average of 14 co-occurring symptoms and studies of symptom clusters in these patients are limited, the purpose of this study, in lung cancer patients undergoing CTX (n = 145), was to identify whether the number and types of symptom clusters differed based on whether symptom occurrence rates or symptom severity ratings were used to create the clusters.
methodsA modified version of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale was used to assess for the occurrence and severity of 38 symptoms, one week after the administration of CTX. Exploratory factor analysis was used to extract the symptom clusters.
resultsBoth the number and types of symptom clusters were relatively similar using symptom occurrence rates or symptom severity ratings. Five symptom clusters were identified using both symptom occurrence rates and severity ratings (i.e., sickness behavior, lung cancer specific, psychological, nutritional, and epithelial). Across these two dimensions, the specific symptoms within each of the symptom clusters were relatively similar.
conclusionsIdentification of symptom clusters in patients with lung cancer may assist with the development of more targeted symptom management interventions. Future studies are warranted to determine if symptom clusters change over a cycle of CTX in patients with lung cancer.
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