| Summary: | 碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理學院管理碩士在職專班 === 100 === The purpose of this study was to explore the symptom distress, daily life, care demand, and their related factors after chemotherapy (C/T) among lung cancer patients. Using a cross-sectional and correlational study design, 90 lung cancer patients were recruited from a medical center in southern Taiwan. All participants are diagnosed lung cancer, conscious clear, and received chemotherapy. Data was collected from 01 March, 2012 to 30 May, 2012 with structured questionnaires including: symptoms distress scale after chemotherapy, daily life functional scale, care demand, patients’ personal characteristics, and disease related variables.
The results indicated that the top three symptoms distress after C/T as order were fatigue, appetite change, and emotion. The top three daily life impacts were keeping social activity, job, and stairway up and down. Emergency situation management, education and problem consultation, and blood laboratory examination were the top three care demand. There were significant positively correlation among symptoms distress, daily life impacts, and care demands. In stepwise regression model, only number of C/T was the predictor of symptom distress, and account for 19% variance. Four predictors of daily life impacts were pray (29%), duration of disease (14%), betal nut history (11%), and Buddhism (6%), which account for 62% total variance. Two predictors of care demands were listening or read Buddhist Scripture (16%) and outpatient department C/T (8%), which account for 24% total variance. A better understanding of the symptom distress, daily life impacts, and care demands and their related factors can improve health professionals’ care plan appraisal efforts, enabling them to provide better quality C/T care, and, ultimately, increase the quality of life for lung cancer patients.
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