Chia Chin Lin

..However, the physician-patient relationship should not be ignored as a factor in cancer symptoms management, especially with regard to promoting compliance behavior...

..Implications of this study are discussed in terms of palliative care and pain educational programs...

..The MDASI-T is a reliable, valid, and sensitive instrument for measuring the severity and interference with daily life of cancer-related symptoms among Taiwanese cancer patients...

..The BFI-T is reliable, valid, and sensitive for measuring cancer-related fatigue severity and interference among Taiwanese cancer patients...

..This research provides evidence of the effectiveness of a patient and family pain education program...

..To explore relationships among perceived diagnostic disclosure, health locus of control, and levels of hope in Taiwanese cancer patients...

..This study provides evidence that the MDASI-T is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring cancer-related symptoms in Taiwanese adolescents with cancer...

..The use of this reliable, valid, simple, and easily administered tool can improve communication between patients and clinicians about use of analgesics and further improve the analgesic regimen adherence...

..This study provides important implications for future studies and clinical practice...

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..The purpose of this study was to determine the place of death and identify the predictors of home deaths for all cancer patients in Taiwan...

..This study explores the significance of patient-reported outcomes for predicting length of survival of palliative cancer patients...

..The aim of the present study was to validate the Taiwanese version of the Apathy Evaluation Scale, clinician version (AES-C) and assess the severity of apathy in patients with AD...

..Electromyography biofeedback-assisted relaxation training may be used along with medications for effective pain management in patients with advanced cancer...

..This paper is a report of a study analysing the effect of a home-based walking exercise program on symptoms and mood distress among breast cancer women receiving chemotherapy postoperatively...

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..Unfortunately, there has been a lack of a short and concise questionnaire to assess patients' hesitancy to use analgesics in clinical practice...

..A modified model showed a better fit. Patients' complex symptom experience may be better represented by subscale scores based on meaningful clusters rather than on an overall score across all symptoms...

..Despite some differences between these two groups, pain, mood, and sleep quality profiles in these two types of pain groups are similar...

..There is little information available on this aspect of stroke care. We used nationwide population-based data to explore the association between physician case volume and costs per discharge for patients with stroke...

..Results from this study have a potential to facilitate assessment of sleep disturbances in lung cancer patients...

..When nurses care for cancer patients they need to know how to handle their side effects in order to ensure that cancer patients experience the maximum possible pain relief and comfort...

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..Previous studies have reported several conflicting findings regarding neuropsychiatric symptoms when comparing patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and patients with vascular dementia (VaD)...

..Sleep disturbance remains a common symptom among cancer patients. Assessment of sleep disturbance in cancer patients is hindered by infrequent use of standardized tools for sleep management...

..To explore the association between the place of death and the level of urbanization within the communities where the elderly were residing at the time of their death...

..The current findings are of clinical importance because they suggest the need to consider simultaneous management of sleep disturbance, fatigue, and depression...

..These results provide an important basis for developing novel strategies to manage multiple symptoms in lung cancer patients and thereby improve their well-being...

..The results of this study suggest that HCV plays a significant role in hepatocarcinogenesis in an area endemic for chronic HBV infection...

..Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the world. Physical activity could help lung cancer patients improve their health...

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..This study uses a case-control approach to compare the likelihood of dying of natural causes and by suicide for depressed and non-depressed patients based on a representative national sample in Taiwan...

..Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) have been used for years in Taiwan, but their broad usage has been restricted by their short durability and complications...

..To explore knowledge of and perceived barriers to pain management among emergency nurses in Taiwan...

..The results of this study support the effectiveness of the pain education program on overcoming the barriers to cancer pain management for Taiwanese home care patients with cancer...

..Education about pain management for patients and clinicians could be an effective intervention to improve the management of postoperative pain in Taiwan...

..Important implications for future studies are discussed...

..The implications of this study are discussed in terms of cancer disclosure practice and enhancement of levels of hope for Taiwanese patients with cancer...

..Results demonstrated that greater patient-staff communication is needed for staff to more accurately provide caring interventions to make patients with cancer pain feel cared for...

..Age, stage of disease, and type of surgery were all related to symptom distress. Results of this study may provide reassurances about what can be expected after breast cancer surgery...

..This study has demonstrated the effect of cancer pain on patients' physical, psychological, and spiritual life and has supported the multidimensional notion of the cancer pain experience in Taiwanese patients...

..They also suggest that more attention should be paid to the impact on patients of a new diagnosis of oral cancer. Further testing of the IES-C in different cancer populations is suggested to validate its psychometric properties...

..The results of this study show that the XQ-T is the first xerostomia measurement instrument to be developed for Taiwanese cancer patients and demonstrates excellent reliability and validity...