Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
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Support Care Cancer · Jan 2020
CancerSupportSource®: validation of a revised multi-dimensional distress screening program for cancer patients and survivors.
To facilitate access to and provision of psychosocial care to cancer patients in the community, the Cancer Support Community (CSC) developed CancerSupportSource® (CSS), an evidence-based psychosocial distress screening program. The current study examined the psychometric properties and multi-dimensionality of a revised 25-item version of CSS, and evaluated the scale's ability to identify individuals at risk for clinically significant levels of depression and anxiety. ⋯ Results indicate that CancerSupportSource is a reliable, valid, multi-dimensional distress screening program with the capacity to screen for those at risk for clinically significant levels of depression and anxiety.
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Support Care Cancer · Jan 2020
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and bloodstream infections in intensive care unit cancer patients: a retrospective 12-year study on 3388 prospectively monitored patients.
Some publications suggest high rates of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and of nosocomial pneumonia portending a poor prognosis in ICU cancer patients. A better understanding of the epidemiology of HAIs in these patients is needed. ⋯ This is the first study to report HAI rates in a large cohort of critically ill cancer patients. Although both the incidence of VAP and the rate of BSI are higher than in general ICU populations, this does not impact patient outcomes. The occurrence of device-associated infections is essentially due to severe medical conditions in patients and to the characteristics of malignancy.
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Support Care Cancer · Dec 2019
Randomized Controlled TrialPositive effects of acupressure bands combined with relaxation music/instructions on patients most at risk for chemotherapy-induced nausea.
Research by our group has shown that acupressure bands are efficacious in reducing chemotherapy-induced nausea (CIN) for breast cancer patients who expect nausea, and that their effectiveness in controlling CIN can largely be accounted for by patients' expectations of efficacy, i.e., a placebo effect. The present research examined if the effectiveness of acupressure bands could be enhanced by boosting patients' expectation of the bands' efficacy. ⋯ In breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and having high CIN expectation, acupressure bands combined with a relaxation recording were effective in reducing CIN for patients who received doxorubicin or had high anxiety.
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Support Care Cancer · Dec 2019
Validation of the Chinese version of the Head and Neck Patient Symptom Checklist for measuring nutrition impact symptoms during radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer.
The Head and Neck Patient Symptom Checklist (HNSC) is a valid tool for measuring nutrition impact symptoms (NIS) specific to head and neck cancer (HNC) patients. This study aimed to translate the HNSC into Chinese and to evaluate its psychometric properties in Chinese HNC patients treated with radiotherapy. ⋯ The Chinese version of HNSC demonstrated favorable validity and reliability. It can be used in identification of NIS and development of symptom management program in HNC patients in China.
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Support Care Cancer · Dec 2019
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy-patient-reported outcomes compared with NCI-CTCAE grade.
Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) are becoming increasingly recognised as essential to comprehensively collect chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) symptom information. ⋯ This study demonstrated that CIPN PRO may provide complementary information to nursing assessed NCI-CTCAE grade, particularly in earlier stages of chemotherapy and can be considered an important component in the comprehensive assessment of neuropathy.