身体和认知功能的下降与瘤学患者的症状负担更高有关
Dianne Sorrera1, Astrid Block1, Lynda Mackin1
1Department of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
Seminars in oncology nursing
|November 15, 2023
概括
化疗患者的身体和认知功能表现不同. 超过70%的人经历了显著的下降,影响了他们的生活质量和症状负担.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 患者报告的结果
- 化疗的副作用 化疗的副作用
背景情况:
- 身体和认知功能是癌症护理中患者报告的关键结果.
- 化疗可以显著影响这些功能,影响患者的福祉.
研究的目的:
- 在化疗期间确定瘤患者的子组,这些患者具有不同的身体和认知功能配置文件.
- 评估这些个人资料中的人口,临床,症状和生活质量特征的差异.
主要方法:
- 隐形形状分析被用来识别关节的身体和认知功能形状.
- 在两次化疗周期中,从1331名瘤患者收集了数据.
- 使用统计测试来比较已识别的个人资料中患者的特征.
主要成果:
- 发现了五种不同的情况:身体/认知能力非常低 (18.4%),身体/认知能力低 (19.8%),身体/认知能力中等 (26.7%),身体/认知能力变化 (5.4%),身体/认知能力正常 (29.7%).
- "两者低"的个人资料组报告了最高的症状负担和最差的生活质量.
- 超过70%的患者体验到中度至严重的身体或认知功能下降.
结论:
- 在化疗患者中存在不同的身体和认知功能概况.
- 大多数患者的功能下降,突出了关键的未满足的需求.
- 临床医生应该经常评估瘤病人的身体和认知功能.
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