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Fatigue in Patients with Cancer: Analysis and Assessment

By RN (auth.) , Agnes Glaus PhD , MSs

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1998
ISBN
978-3-642-51468-5, 978-3-642-51466-1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-51466-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5108138 bytes)
Series
Recent Results in Cancer Research 145
Edition
1
Pages
172\181
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Oncology; Nursing

Description

This book reviews the literature on fatigue in general and in cancer. A chapter is devoted to identifying the concept of fatigue in cancer patients in comparison to fatigue as experienced in healthy individuals. Descriptors derived from this conceptional analysis were compared to those known from existing measurement tools, as published in available literature. A new fatigue assessment questionnaire was then developed and tested. In another study, this instrument underwent further reliability and validity testing. At the same time, a theoretical framework of fatigue emerged. The last chapter synthesizes the findings of the consecutive studies, and the appendix contains the Fatigue Assessment Questionnaire. This book is a must for reseachers, oncology nurses, physicians and psychologists who deal with this relevant aspect of quality of life in cancer patients.

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