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Managing Uncertainty in Chronic Illness From Patient Perspectives [PDF]
, 2020 Chronic illness is an increasing concern in the United States as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 50% of adults have at least one chronic illness. When individuals must adjust to chronic illness, they may experience uncertainty
Hussey, Leslie C +7 more
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Psycho-Oncology, 2023 The relationship between illness uncertainty and quality of life (QOL) has been examined for either the patient or caregiver, but not among the patient‐caregiver dyads.
Ting Guan +7 more
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‘Beyond my Control’: Dealing with the Existential Uncertainty of Cancer in Online Texts [PDF]
, 2022 In this paper, we explore how existential aspects of being diagnosed and living with cancer are shared in stories that are publicly communicated online. Through a narrative analysis of online texts and blogs, we explore how people deal with their cancer ...
Kvaale, Kaja +2 more
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Patients, Caregivers, and Illness Uncertainty: Influences on Coping and Quality of Life [PDF]
, 2022 Illness uncertainty is defined as “the inability of a person to determine the meaning of illness-related events”. Patients’ and caregivers’ individual experiences of illness uncertainty adversely affect their quality of life (QOL).
Guan, Ting
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Annals of Palliative Medicine, 2022 BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the illness uncertainty and its influencing factors in patients after heart stent implantation, and to explore the relationship between uncertainty of disease, self-management behavior of coronary ...
Bian Xia, Jia-Ming Yu, Xiao-Yun Wu
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Illness related uncertainty in the lives of people living with HIV [PDF]
, 2020 Section A This systematic literature review analysed twenty-three qualitative and quantitative studies investigating the experiences of illness uncertainty in the lives of people living with HIV.
Zito, R.
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Further explorations of illness uncertainty: Carer’s experiences of Parkinson’s disease [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: Dominant models of illness uncertainty define uncertainty as ‘an inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events’. Recent research has shown patient uncertainty to be multidimensional encompassing personal issues indirectly ...
Cleanthous, S. +5 more
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Nursing Open, 2022 Aim To investigate the uncertainty in illness, anxiety, depression and quality of life in patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis and confirm the correlations between these variables.
Jingxia Cheng +5 more
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Illness uncertainty and risk management for people with cancer.
Australian Journal of General Practice, 2022 BACKGROUND Patients with cancer live with considerable uncertainty. This uncertainty can be related to the process of diagnosis, treatment, remission or palliative care, and therefore it can be experienced repeatedly or continuously throughout a patient ...
A. Olsen, Louise Stone
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Parents' experiences of living with a child with hydrocephalus: a cross-sectional interview-based study [PDF]
, 2015 Background Shunts, the main treatment for hydrocephalus, are problematic because they frequently malfunction. Detecting shunt malfunction is challenging because symptoms are similar to those of common childhood illnesses, particularly viral infections ...
Bekker, H +8 more
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