Showing papers in "European Journal of Oncology Nursing in 2014"

TL;DR: This study explored children's participation in shared decision-making (SDM) from multiple perspectives from one haematology/oncology unit in Ireland and found that children appeared content that adults held responsibility for the major treatment decisions.

TL;DR: The proposed concepts of 'communication', 'reciprocal influence', and 'caregiver-patient congruence' have been found to be interrelated, and to contribute to the spousal caregiver-cancer patient dyads' mutual appraisal of caregiving and role adjustment through the cancer trajectory.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the level of loneliness rises with increasing time after cancer diagnosis, and social functioning emerged as a consistent theme, for which it was shown that lack of social support was associated with increasing levels of loneliness.

TL;DR: C cancer-related fatigue, physical activity level, systemic side effects, and body image were significant predictors of depressed mood, and when combined, they explained 39.6% of the variance in depressed mood.

TL;DR: The results suggest that breast cancer survivors continue to experience a multitude of symptoms, and the burden of symptoms may be associated with unmet needs across a range of domains.

TL;DR: It is suggested that approximately 35% of women experience persistent levels of moderate arm/shoulder pain in the first six months following breast cancer surgery, which is associated with clinically meaningful decrements in functional status and quality of life.

TL;DR: Stepwise multivariable regression analyses revealed that the time spent on travelling from home to hospital, receiving hormonal therapy, and physical and psychological unmet needs were independently associated with poorer quality of life among the participants.

TL;DR: For the protective value of factors such as meaning and purpose in life, secure attachment and attitude towards death, through the various burnout dimensions that shows the need to develop under and postgraduate training strategies in these specific areas are concluded.

TL;DR: Investigation of how the language and metaphors of cancer influence personal and social adjustment after completion of a course of treatment revealed that language, metaphor and euphemism are central to adjustment and the forging of an altered identity as a survivor of cancer diagnosis and treatment.

TL;DR: Kinesio Taping application along with Complex Decongestive Therapy may have a better effect on decreasing lymphedema which can stimulate the reduction of edema for long term effects.

TL;DR: Women with breast cancer experience that encounters with many different types of stakeholders affect their RTW, and mutual knowledge about other stakeholders involved in the RTW process and how the women are encountered by others may be useful for each stakeholder to facilitate a closer collaboration to find flexible solutions and adjustments for individuals.

TL;DR: The complexity surrounding the reasons why patients delay in seeking help for oral cancer treatment is demonstrated, demonstrating the association between knowledge and patient delay has implications for information provision about cancer to those at risk of developing the disease.

TL;DR: The transactional model of stress, appraisal and coping is useful in understanding the psychosocial outcomes of head and neck cancer; however conclusions from this study are limited by a small and homogenous sample.

TL;DR: Using B-mode ultrasound with MST for PICC placement reduced complications and patients' costs for PicC maintenance and improved patients' degree of comfort; thus, this procedure should be more widely used.

TL;DR: Overall, participants struggled to adhere to medication schedules, taking less than three-quarters of prescribed doses and demonstrating perfect adherence on fewer than four out of seven days per week.

TL;DR: PTG is common among Chinese breast cancer survivors and is positively associated with exercise, income, education, and retirement, and negatively associated with the presence of other chronic diseases and working.

TL;DR: The uniqueness and significance of nursing is described, and insights into realizing the full potential of nurses are provided, and this conceptual model can be used as a guide for practice and an educational tool to build professional identity of nurses.

TL;DR: Nurses have a major role to play in the process of striving for a new normal in the world post-diagnosis, and provide essential roles by giving the young child information, making them participatory in their care and encouraging access to both parents and peers.

TL;DR: Oncology nurses must be at the forefront in ensuring that patients with lung cancer do not experience additional burden from perceptions that they somehow deserve and need to defend why they have the illness that they are facing.

TL;DR: The average decrease in caseness of anxiety and depression a year following surgery lends support to the view of distress as a transient non-pathological response, but a subgroup of patients displayed enduring or recurrent severe distress indicating the presence of potential disorder.

TL;DR: The Persian version of the MUIS-A has good psychometric properties and can be used to assess uncertainty in illness in Iranian patients with cancer.

TL;DR: It is pointed out that health care professionals need to be aware of patients' feelings of abandonment in exposed situations such as patients'feelings of existential loneliness, and its therefore important to listen to patients' stories, regardless of care organization, in order to gain access to Patients' inner existential needs.

TL;DR: Specific factors guide women in their use of strategies to tell their children of their breast cancer diagnosis, and these results will enable health professionals to develop guidelines and expert practice to support women through advice, reassurance and opportunity for discussion.

TL;DR: The lived experience of multiple concurrent symptoms in people with advanced lung cancer is explored to contribute to the understanding of the experience of symptom clusters to provide vital information for the future development of meaning-based symptom cluster interventions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that it is feasible to deliver the psychoeducational intervention program and it may have beneficial effects in gynecological cancer patients and a full-scale study is warranted to confirm the results.

TL;DR: There is suggestive evidence that a supervised exercise program has positive effects on motivational outcomes even after 5 years, and additional intervention strategies during follow-up may further improve long-term adherence and health outcomes in BCS.

TL;DR: Analysis supports the validity of all four short-forms of the MST as providing indications of both presence of morbidity and impacts on participants' lives and may facilitate early and appropriate referral for intervention.

TL;DR: By implementing the EONS guidelines nurses will utilise the latest available knowledge in clinical practice and the understanding and management of BTCP will improve assessment and overall management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients.

TL;DR: Postoperative dysphagia, depression and anxiety were improved after swallowing training, and early identification and management of dysphagía can improve treatment outcomes and reduce depression.

TL;DR: The G8 can be used as a valid screening tool in older patients with aggressive haematological malignancies to identify those patients who would benefit from a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA).