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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 陈叶咏娴教授 (那打素护理学院) |
| 梁燕萍教授 (那打素护理学院) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2017.02.004 |
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摘要Despite the improvement in radiotherapy (RT) technology, patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) still suffer from numerous distressing symptoms simultaneously during RT. The purpose of the study was to investigate the symptom clusters experienced by NPC patients during RT.
First-treated Chinese NPC patients (n = 13http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0) undergoing late-period RT (from week 4 till the end) were recruited for this cross-sectional study. They completed a sociodemographic and clinical data questionnaire, the Chinese version of the M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory - Head and Neck Module (MDASI-HN-C) and the Chinese version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Head and Neck Scale (FACT-H&N-C). Principal axis factor analysis with oblimin rotation, independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson product-moment correlation were used to analyze the data.
Four symptom clusters were identified, and labelled general, gastrointestinal, nutrition impact and social interaction impact. Of these 4 types, the nutrition impact symptom cluster was the most severe. Statistically positive correlations were found between severity of all 4 symptom clusters and symptom interference, as well as weight loss. Statistically negative correlations were detected between the cluster severity and the QOL total score and 3 out of 5 subscale scores.
The four clusters identified reveal the symptom patterns experienced by NPC patients during RT. Future intervention studies on managing these symptom clusters are warranted, especially for the nutrition impact symptom cluster.
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着者Wenli Xiao, Carmen W.H. Chan, Yuying Fan, Doris Y.P. Leung, Weixiong Xia, Yan He, Linquan Tang
期刊名称European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society
出版年份2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/017
月份6
日期1
卷号28
出版社Elsevier
页次7 - 13
国际标準期刊号1462-3889
语言英式英语
