BACKGROUND Swedish patient associations for breast cancer patients (PABCPs) offer patients with breast cancer unlimited meetings with a breast cancer survivor, a contact person (CP). We applied the voluntary action perspective in this interview study with members of Swedish PABCPs in order to explore how women with breast cancer experienced their contact with a CP from a PABCP. METHODS Audio-...

For the growing population of cancer survivors, an obvious conceptual framework to guide the inquiry of health related quality of life (HRQOL) in rural cancer survivors has not emerged. In this paper, Walker and Avant’s theory derivation procedures are used to adapt Ashing-Giwa’s Contextual Model of HRQOL, the parent Model, to incorporate rurality into the Model’s contextual dimensions. Rural c...

Faculty at a university school of nursing developed an innovative oncology nursing elective designed to enhance baccalaureate students' knowing and aesthetic appreciation of persons living with cancer. Following completion of the course, students rank ordered class activities they felt would help them most in their nursing careers. Students chose the cancer survivor interview first, followed by...

Attention to issues unique to cancer survivorship has increased in recent years as the number of cancer survivors has grown. In 2004, the latest year with complete statistics in the United States, an estimated 10.8 million cancer survivors represented approximately 3.7% of the population (Ries et al., 2007). The cancer sites with the highest frequency of survivors were breast (22%), prostate (1...

Objective: The aim was to investigate the relationship between blood gas and complete count parameters mortality in patients with COVID-19 during after intensive care unit (ICU).
 Material Methods: Patients were divided as group nonsurvivor survivor. Hematological registered on day 1, 3, 5.
 Results: A total of 142 analyzed retrospectively study. Out them, 46 women (32%). Seventy-one ...

conclusions a long-term longitudinal study encompassing integrated research is needed to fully understand the traumatic experiences of caregivers. unless research on tbi or dai trauma is given its proper attention, the burden of trauma and injury on societies will continue to exacerbate globally. context as with care giving and rehabilitation in chronic illnesses, the concern with traumatic bra...

The long-term survivor mixture model is commonly applied to analyse survival data when some individuals may never experience the failure event of interest. A score test is presented to assess whether the cured proportion is significant to justify the long-term survivor mixture model. Sampling distribution and power of the test statistic are evaluated by simulation studies. The results confirm t...

Stroke is a leading cause of severe, long-term disability. Most stroke survivors are cared for in the home by a family caregiver. Caregiver stress is a leading cause of stroke survivor institutionalization, which results in significant costs to the healthcare system. Stroke family caregiver and dyad intervention studies have reported a variety of outcomes. A critical analysis of 17 caregiver in...