Cancer nursing
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Multicenter Study
Uncertainty, Self-efficacy, and Self-care Behavior in Patients With Breast Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy in China.
Treatment for breast cancer causes uncertainty in the face of new and distressing experiences and often results in the need for self-care. Identifying how uncertainty influences self-care behavior is essential to design interventions that enhance self-care capacity and improve patient outcomes. ⋯ Self-care intervention programs should include strategies to reduce uncertainty and enhance self-efficacy in coping with breast cancer treatment.
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Multicenter Study
Preferences for Aggressive End-of-life Care and Their Determinants Among Taiwanese Terminally Ill Cancer Patients.
Studies on factors influencing preferences for aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care have focused predominantly on preferred goals of EOL and seldom comprehensively incorporate patients' predisposing, enabling, and need factors into their analyses. ⋯ Terminally ill cancer patients at risk of preferring aggressive EOL care should receive interventions to help them appropriately weigh the burdens and benefits of such aggressive treatments.
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Multicenter Study
Measuring vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathy (VIPN) is difficult to quantify in children. ⋯ The TNS-PV may be a useful tool for assessing vincristine toxicity in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Multicenter Study
Pain in outpatients treated for breast cancer: prevalence, pharmacological treatment, and impact on quality of life.
Cancer pain is an unmitigated clinical phenomenon. Despite available guidelines, variability exists in treating cancer pain. ⋯ The risks and benefits of coadministration of traditional and adjuvant analgesics need to be determined. Other treatment modalities in conjunction with pharmacological treatment are needed, considering negative effects of adjuvant analgesics on pain and quality of life.
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Multicenter Study
Nursing practice environment and outcomes for oncology nursing.
It is commonly assumed that oncology nurses experience high job-related burnout and high turnover because their work involves inherent stressors such as caring for patients with serious and often life-threatening illness. ⋯ Improving hospital practice environments holds significant potential to improve nurse well-being, retention, and quality of care. Specifically, hospitals should consider preceptor programs and continuing education and increase nurses' participation in hospital decision making.