Experiences of Japanese Patients With Colorectal Cancer During the First Six Months After Surgery

Original citationLanders, M., McCarthy, G., Livingstone, V. and Savage E. (2014) 'Patients' bowel symptom experiences and self-care strategies following 1 Abstract Aims and objectives: To investigate patients' bowel symptom experiences and selfcare strategies following sphincter-saving surgery for rectal cancer and the relationship between bowel symptom experiences and the self-care strategies used.Background: Earlier diagnosis of rectal cancer allows for less invasive surgical treatments such as sphincter-saving procedures to be performed. Although a permanent stoma is generally not required, patients experience changes in bowel function following this surgery. However, limited research exists on patients' bowel symptom experiences and the self-care strategies used to manage symptoms following sphincter-saving surgery of rectal cancer.

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“…Physiologically, patients have been found to experience fatigue six months following treatment for colo‐rectal cancer (Mizuno et al . ).…”

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“…In addition to symptom evaluations on cause, severity and temporality, these studies showed that patients make judgements about their ability to achieve control and if their symptoms can be cured (Mizuno et al . , Kidd et al . , Beaver et al .…”

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Patients’ bowel symptom experiences and self‐care strategies following sphincter‐saving surgery for rectal cancer

Landers

McCarthy

Livingstone

et al. 2014

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…We make sense of that which is lived through. 14 Interpretive inquiries related to living with gastroin-testinal cancer have focused on areas such as being given a diagnosis, 15 recovery from surgery, 16 sense making in illness, 17 surviving treatment, 18 surgical treatment for metastases, 19 alleviation of suffering, 6 and human learning at the end of life. In this way, sense making is both socially and culturally embedded.…”

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Making Sense of Receiving Palliative Treatment

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“…[16] The questionnaire is composed of 16 items assessing demands including “managing my own daily activities according to my physical condition,” “communicating my own needs to my family/friends,” “establishing a lifestyle that adapts to my present state,” and “understanding what medical information I actually need.” The items were presented using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree.” Higher scores indicated a greater perception of demands. A previous study on patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract and other cancer sites confirmed that the instrument exhibited strong internal consistency (α = 0.77).…”

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Psychological stress and coping in recently discharged postsurgical cancer patients

Taniguchi

Mizuno

2016

Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing

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Objective:Cancer patients and survivors need to cope with various stressful situations and problems even after treatment. In this study, we sought to investigate psychological stress and coping in recently discharged postsurgical cancer patients.Methods:A mail-in questionnaire survey about stress response, perceived illness-related demands, and coping strategies and styles was administered to postsurgical Japanese cancer patients. The questionnaires were returned a week after the patients’ discharge from the hospital. Descriptive and nonparametric statistical analyses were used.Results:Forty-two patients completed the questionnaire; their average age was 58.1 years, and 61.9% were female. The stress response scale-18 (SRS-18) score was lower than that reported among the general population. The proportion of patients who were concentrating coping on social support or positive reappraisal was high. The scores for problem- and emotion-focused coping were nearly identical. SRS-18 scores were weakly correlated with those for emotion-focused coping (r = 0.38, P = 0.014). The demographic data were not significantly associated with any of the stress or coping variables. However, SRS-18 scores for patients who had adjuvant therapy and physical, functional disorders were significantly higher than those for patients who did not (P = 0.004 and P = 0.008, respectively).Conclusions:Most of the patients had a low-stress response and used appropriate coping strategies. However, the findings suggest that attention must be paid to stress-coping in patients who have a physical, functional disorder as well as in those receiving adjuvant therapy.

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Experiences of Japanese Patients With Colorectal Cancer During the First Six Months After Surgery

Abstract: Some of the patients were sincere and skillful in asking for help to live normal lives, but others found that difficult. The present findings are significant in helping nurses provide interventions to enable patients to make use of assistance or support.

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Patients’ bowel symptom experiences and self‐care strategies following sphincter‐saving surgery for rectal cancer

Patients’ bowel symptom experiences and self‐care strategies following sphincter‐saving surgery for rectal cancer

Making Sense of Receiving Palliative Treatment

Psychological stress and coping in recently discharged postsurgical cancer patients

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