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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES
Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 359-367Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7489(00)00067-5
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cancer symptoms; checklist; instrument development; oncology patients; self-assessment
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Oncology patients receiving chemotherapy (n = 109) and radiation therapy RT (n = 161) reported symptom concerns and severity on the 25-item therapy-related symptom checklist (TRSC). Secondary analysis of the self-reports of the two treatment groups was done using the Mann-Whitney U Test. Thirteen symptoms differed significantly between the two groups. RT patients reported significantly greater severity of five symptoms (p<0.05) during therapy. Chemotherapy patients reported significantly greater severity of eight different symptoms. The other 14 items showed a heterogeneous pattern of self-reported patient symptom concerns. The TRSC appears to be a clinically useful self-report checklist that captures the more important symptom concerns of both RT and chemotherapy patients. Earlier efforts to develop this checklist are reviewed briefly. <(c)> 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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