TY - JOUR
T1 - Predictors of pain and fatigue in the year following diagnosis among elderly cancer patients
AU - Given, Charles W.
AU - Given, Barbara
AU - Azzouz, Faouzi
AU - Kozachik, Sharon
AU - Stommel, Manfred
N1 - Funding Information:
Research supported by a grant entitled Family Home Care for Cancer—A Community Based Model from the National Institute of Nursing and the National Cancer Institute; Grant NR 1915-06 and in affiliation with the Walther Cancer Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana; and a grant entitled Cancer Care Intervention to Improve Functioning and Psychosocial Outcomes in Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients and Their Families.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Using data obtained from an inception cohort of 841 patients aged 65 or older newly diagnosed with breast, colon, lung, or prostate cancer, and observed at 6-8, 12-16, 24-30, and 52 weeks, three questions related to patients' experiences with pain and fatigue were posed. First, how do numbers of patients reporting neither pain nor fatigue, either symptom, or both change during the observation year? Second, did number of comorbid conditions, site and stage of cancer, treatment modalities, symptom management medication, and time affect the presence of these two symptoms? Third, do pain and fatigue predict the numbers of co-occurring other symptoms? Findings indicate that during the year patients improved with respect to their reports of pain and/or fatigue. Stage, more comorbidity, and lung cancer were related to both pain and fatigue. Chemotherapy was related to reports of fatigue, but did not have an extended effect on fatigue.
AB - Using data obtained from an inception cohort of 841 patients aged 65 or older newly diagnosed with breast, colon, lung, or prostate cancer, and observed at 6-8, 12-16, 24-30, and 52 weeks, three questions related to patients' experiences with pain and fatigue were posed. First, how do numbers of patients reporting neither pain nor fatigue, either symptom, or both change during the observation year? Second, did number of comorbid conditions, site and stage of cancer, treatment modalities, symptom management medication, and time affect the presence of these two symptoms? Third, do pain and fatigue predict the numbers of co-occurring other symptoms? Findings indicate that during the year patients improved with respect to their reports of pain and/or fatigue. Stage, more comorbidity, and lung cancer were related to both pain and fatigue. Chemotherapy was related to reports of fatigue, but did not have an extended effect on fatigue.
KW - Fatigue
KW - Inception cohort
KW - Longitudinal analysis
KW - Pain
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U2 - 10.1016/S0885-3924(01)00284-6
DO - 10.1016/S0885-3924(01)00284-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 11397603
AN - SCOPUS:0035001021
SN - 0885-3924
VL - 21
SP - 456
EP - 466
JO - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
JF - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
IS - 6
ER -