Patterns of symptom distress in adults receiving treatment for lung cancer
Patterns of symptom distress in adults receiving treatment for lung cancer
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DOI：
10.1177/082585970201800303
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发表时间：
2002-09-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Moriarty, HJ
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作者：
Cooley, ME;Short, TH;Moriarty, HJ
了解接受肺癌治疗的成年人的症状困扰模式是制定可能减轻症状困扰的干预措施的重要第一步。二次分析的目的是描述接受肺癌治疗的成年人症状困扰模式随时间的变化，并检查选定的人口统计学和临床特征与症状困扰的关系。117例患者的完整数据可用。接受肺癌治疗的成年人的症状困扰模式在治疗组之间和随着时间的推移而变化。在进入研究时，症状困扰评分为中度至高度，表明新诊断的肺癌患者的症状管理是必不可少的，应该在病程早期开始。此外，临床干预措施应适合治疗类型。各种人口统计学和临床变量是症状困扰的弱和不一致的预测因子，强调了研究心理社会因素在调解症状困扰中的作用的重要性。
Knowledge of the patterns of symptom distress in adults receiving treatment for lung cancer is an important first step in developing interventions that can potentially lessen symptom distress. The purposes of this secondary analysis were to describe the changes in patterns of symptom distress over time in adults receiving treatment for lung cancer, and to examine the relationship of selected demographic and clinical characteristics to symptom distress. Complete data were available for 117 patients. The patterns of symptom distress in adults receiving treatment for lung cancer varied between treatment groups and over time. Symptom distress scores were moderate to high on entry into the study, indicating that symptom management in newly diagnosed lung cancer patients is essential and should begin early in the course of illness. Moreover, clinical interventions should be tailored to the type of treatment. Various demographic and clinical variables were weak and inconsistent predictors of symptom distress, underscoring the importance of examining the role of psychosocial factors in mediating symptom distress.