ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Symptom Clusters and Quality of Life in Cervical Cancer Patients Receiving Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy: The Mediating Role of Illness Perceptions.
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- Effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions in managing symptom clusters among lung cancer patients: a systematic review.BMC cancer · 2024Pooled it
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- Perioperative Symptom Trajectories and a Risk Prediction Model for Cervical Cancer: A Prospective Longitudinal Study.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Symptoms associated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy in patients with cervical cancer: Application of latent profile analysis and network analysis.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2025Article
- Quality of life in patients with pan-cancer undergoing concurrent chemoradiotherapy: a bibliometric analysis (1995-2024).Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Estimating and Explaining the Differences in Health Care Seeking by Symptom Burden Among Persons With Presumptive Tuberculosis: Findings From a Population-Based Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey in a High-Burden Setting in India.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- The Heterogeneity of Symptom Burden and Fear of Progression Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Latent Class Analysis.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
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- Symptom burden survey and symptom clusters in patients with cervical cancer: a cross-sectional survey.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesAlthough studies shows that symptom clusters and illness perceptions are negatively associated with quality of life (QoL), it is unclear how these variables of cervical cancer patients who receive concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) relate to each other. This study aimed to identify the symptom clusters in cervical cancer patients who receive CCRT and evaluate the mediating effect of illness perceptions on the relationship between symptom clusters and QoL.
methodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted on 286 cervical cancer patients receiving CCRT from October 2019 to October 2020. M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory, Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire, and Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy-Cervix were applied to investigate the symptom clusters, illness perceptions and QoL of the participants, respectively. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to identify symptom clusters. The relationships among symptom clusters, illness perceptions, and QoL were analyzed with the structural equation modeling.
resultsA total of four symptom clusters were identified, including psychological status symptom cluster, therapy side-effect symptom cluster, sickness symptom cluster, and gastrointestinal symptom cluster (χ
conclusionIllness perceptions played a significant mediating role between symptom clusters and QoL in cervical cancer patients receiving CCRT. Strategies like prompting effective symptom management for the purposes of alleviating illness perceptions may contribute to improving their QoL.
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