BACKGROUND Managing symptoms in daily life is a challenging problem for people living with HIV. As traditional parameters used to identify symptoms needing management do not integrate aspects of daily living with symptoms, we introduced 'perceived symptom manageability' to fill this gap. AIM The aim of this study was to quantitatively explore 'perceived symptom manageability' in a sample of 2...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of a computer-assisted, interactive tailored patient assessment (ITPA) tool in oncology practice on: documented patient care, symptom distress, and patients' need for symptom management support during treatment and rehabilitation. DESIGN AND METHODS For this repeated measures clinical trial at a university hospital in Norway, 145 patients starting treatment fo...

The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of symptoms and to explore the presence and composition of symptom clusters in Thai patients with advanced lung cancer based on the “Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms”. One hundred and sixty five patients with advanced lung cancer were purposely selected from outpatient and inpatient oncology units at two tertiary hospitals in Bangkok to ...

AIMS To describe self-management, symptom monitoring and the associated influences among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. BACKGROUND Optimal self-management and monitoring of key symptoms in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease reduces dyspnoea and preventable hospitalizations. METHOD A prospective, descriptive survey design was used and data collected...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to evaluate the magnitude and time course of change in symptom burden after palliative care (PC) consultation in a cohort of gynecologic oncology inpatients. METHODS Women with a gynecologic malignancy and PC consultation for symptom management between 3/1/12 and 2/28/13 were identified. Charts were reviewed for demographic and disease characteristics. Sympt...

objective(s): drug addiction is one of the fastest growing social problems that researchers, for many years, have been trying to find proper strategies for its prevention and treatment. short-term physical activity is considered as acceptable for the treatment and prevention of addiction. on the other hand, prefrontal cortex is known to be responsible for many of the complex behavioral response...

BACKGROUND Disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) are a significant expenditure for treating multiple sclerosis (MS). However, there is limited report on assessment of the cost-utility of DMDs compared with symptom management in the presence of long-term data. This study aimed to assess the lifetime cost-utility from the Iranian healthcare perspectives of 4DMDs relative to symptom management alone in p...

Chronic pain is a common and debilitating symptom experienced in the context of numerous other physical and emotional symptoms by many patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Management of pain with opioids in CKD can be problematic given the prominence of adverse effects of opioids in CKD, which may exacerbate symptoms, such as nausea, anorexia, pruritus, and insomnia, all of which impact ...

AIMS To explore the existence of symptom clusters in advanced chronic kidney disease. BACKGROUND People with chronic kidney disease commonly report multiple symptoms. However, the complex relationships among these symptoms are still poorly understood. DESIGN Cross-sectional. METHODS A total of 436 people with stage 4 and 5 chronic kidney disease were recruited from three tertiary hospital...