Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 2020
Breathlessness, anxiety, depression and function - the BAD-F study: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study in adults.
Breathlessness is associated with depression, but its relationship to anxiety or impaired function is less clear. ⋯ Clinically important breathlessness (mMRC ≥2) was associated with depression, anxiety, and coexisting anxiety/depression. Poorer function that is associated with psychological morbidity in the general population requires further research.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 2020
Traumatic Events Among Cancer Patients that Lead to Compassion Fatigue in Nurses: A Qualitative Study.
Cancer care nurses are frequently exposed to patients' traumatic experiences and are at high risk of compassion fatigue. ⋯ This study identified the components and frequencies of traumatic events among patients with cancer that lead to the onset of nurse compassion fatigue. Such information will aid in understanding the triggers of compassion fatigue, allowing for possible preparation to reduce the risk of this occupational hazard.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 2020
Patterns of Storage, Use, and Disposal of Prescription Opioids by Parents of Children with Cancer.
Multiple studies have demonstrated that adults do not store prescription opioids safely. Increased prescription opioid rates have led to an increased incidence of opioid poisonings in children and adolescents. ⋯ Universal education about the safe use and disposal of opioids should be adopted when prescribing opioids. Pediatricians need to maintain vigilance about the nonmedical use of prescription opioid use by parents of children.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 2020
Symptom Clusters in Women with Breast Cancer During the First 18 Months of Adjuvant Therapy.
Women with breast cancer treated with aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy experience multiple concurrent symptoms or symptom clusters. Understanding of the symptom experience and identifying symptom clusters before and during AI therapy are important for the development of interventions to improve clinical outcomes. ⋯ This study helps us to better understand the most common symptom clusters over the first 18 months of adjuvant therapy among postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer. It is critical for health care providers to know the symptom clusters commonly experienced by women receiving AI therapy with or without chemotherapy and manage them properly over time.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 2020
Chronic breathlessness explanations and research priorities: Findings from an international Delphi survey.
Explanations provided by health professionals may underpin helpful or harmful symptom beliefs and expectations of people living with chronic breathlessness. ⋯ These consensus-based concepts for chronic breathlessness explanations and research provide a starting point for conversations between patients, carers, clinicians, and researchers within the chronic breathlessness community.