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Symptom Clusters in Cancer Patients

Supportive Care in Cancer, 2006
Cancer patients often experience multiple symptoms, many of which have been reported to correlate with each other. The goals of this study were to understand which cancer-related symptoms cluster together and to test the conceptual meanings of the revealed symptom clusters.Patients with various cancer diagnoses (N=151) were recruited from a medical ...
Mei-Ling Chen
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Stable Symptom Clusters and Evolving Symptom Networks in Relation to Chemotherapy Cycles

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2021
Context: The existence of stable symptom clusters with variations or changes in cluster membership and the merging of symptom clusters over time urge us to investigate how symptom relationships change over time.
Jiyeon Lee, Sun Young Rha
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Symptom Burden Clusters: A Challenge for Targeted Symptom Management. A Longitudinal Study Examining Symptom Burden Clusters in Breast Cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2014
Context: Although there has been a growing interest in cancer symptom clusters, less is known about symptom burden clusters. Objectives: To explore clusters of burdensome symptoms over time, the impact on health status and quality of life, and coping ...
Elisabeth Kenne Sarenmalm, maria Brovall, Fannie Gaston-Johansson   +2 more
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Symptom Clusters

Cancer Nursing, 2005
The purpose of this article is to analyze the concept of symptom clusters and to discuss its application to cancer nursing to promote communication and enhance scientific knowledge. Rodgers' evolutionary method of concept analysis served as the framework for reviewing literature from psychology/psychiatry, general medicine, and nursing.
Hee-Ju, Kim, Deborah B, McGuire, Lorraine, Tulman, Andrea M, Barsevick   +3 more
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Symptom clusters in children

Current Opinion in Supportive & Palliative Care, 2013
Researchers have focused on identifying and describing symptom experiences among children with various diseases but symptoms can have a synergistic and/or an antecedent effect that must be evaluated. This review reports the current knowledge of symptoms among various pediatric diseases and highlights symptom cluster research.Symptoms of depression and ...
Cheryl C, Rodgers, Mary C, Hooke, Marilyn J, Hockenberry   +2 more
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Premenstrual Symptoms: Delineating Symptom Clusters

Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine, 1999
The purposes of this study were to (1) identify the clusters of symptoms women experience during the premenstruum, (2) assess the reliability of the symptom clusters as reported by a population-based sample and a sample of women with three perimenstrual symptom patterns, (3) compare the levels of severity for the symptom clusters across menstrual cycle
N F, Woods, E S, Mitchell, M, Lentz
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Menopausal symptoms and symptom clustering in Chinese women

Maturitas, 1999
this paper aims to report the prevalence of symptoms in the Hong Kong Chinese perimenopausal women; to construct reported symptoms into symptom groupings; and to clarify whether the symptom groups are associated with menopausal status.a random telephone survey of perimenopausal women aged 44-55 years was conducted in 1996.
S C, Ho, S G, Chan, Y B, Yip, A, Cheng, Q, Yi, C, Chan   +5 more
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Familial Clustering of Reflux Symptoms

American Journal of Gastroenterology, 1999
A number of case reports describe multiple family members with gastroesophageal reflux disease and Barrett' s esophagus. The wider importance of familial factors in gastroesophageal reflux disease has not been established. Therefore, we have studied the prevalence of reflux symptoms and medication use among relatives of patients with documented ...
N J, Trudgill, K C, Kapur, S A, Riley
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The Concept of Symptom Cluster

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 2007
To define the concept of a symptom cluster, evaluate the evidence base in support of it, and address research and clinical implications.Review of descriptive research that examined fatigue, insomnia, pain, or depression in relation to other symptoms.More investigation is needed.
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