書目名稱 | Fatigue in Patients with Cancer |
副標(biāo)題 | Analysis and Assessm |
編輯 | Agnes Glaus |
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概述 | With new fatigue assessment questionnaire A "MUST" for researchers, oncology nurses and physicians |
叢書名稱 | Recent Results in Cancer Research |
圖書封面 |  |
描述 | Current literature shows that there is a gap in our knowledge about how tired- ness/fatigue in cancer patients should be defined and measured. Existing fa- tigue-related research in cancer patients shows conceptual and measurement differences (Piper 1993). There is no continuum of tiredness/fatigue in univer- sal use. What do patients mean if they fill in a visual analogue scale indicating that they feel "very tired"? Is it an indicator of general well-being, and thus an 1993)? Most articles estimate of general quality of life (Hiirny and Bernhard written by English authors use the word fatigue to identify extreme tired- ness. It could be said that in the English language, tiredness that is perceived as unusual, continuing distress is fatigue rather than tiredness. In the German language, tiredness (Mudigkeit) is not primarily a term for distress attributed to disease or unusual effort. But tiredness becomes a distressing phenomenon when it no longer regulates a healthy balance between rest and activity but represents unusual, abnormal or excessive whole-body tiredness that is dis- proportionate to or unrelated to activity or excessive exertion (Piper 1993). As there is no word for |
出版日期 | Book 1998 |
關(guān)鍵詞 | Bewertung; Fatigue; Gesundheit; Konzept; Krebs; Müdigkeit; assessment; cancer; concept; fat; health; oncology; p |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51466-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-51468-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-51466-1Series ISSN 0080-0015 Series E-ISSN 2197-6767 |
issn_series | 0080-0015 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998 |