Hwey-Fang Liang, Kuang-Ming Wu, Cheng-Hsing Weng, Yong-Chuan Chen
Revision and validation of a short scale to assess home environment for elementary school children in transnational families in Taiwan
Journal of pediatric nursing
examine relationship symptom experience lung cancer patients illness perception disease descriptive crosssectional study conducted april september 2015 chemotherapy treatment centre medicine chest diseases clinic ege university izmir turkey comprised lung cancer patients either gender aged 18 years data collected using predesigned patient questionnaire well standard lung cancer symptom scale illness perception questionnaire karnofsky performance scale patients sociodemographic characteristics data illness symptoms experienced numerical percentage distribution items illness perception scale mean standard deviation values examined pearson correlation analysis used examine correlation illness perception karnofsky performance scale scores variables 105 patients 86819 males 86819 married 49467 elementary school graduates 101962 unemployed 95905 receiving chemotherapy overall mean age sample 6143824 years period since diagnosis 11381784 months duration chemotherapy 428237 months mean symptom burden score 22751085 lung cancer symptom scale score 22751085 mean score type illness domain 553212 overall mean global quality life score 64301260 symptom burden experienced lung cancer patients increased perception illness became negative longer cyclical periods period diagnosis patients control illness decreased