Symptom Experience Among Family Caregivers: Symptom Cluster Analysis

Symptom experience of family caregivers of patients with cancer.

OBJECTIVES To review the literature on depression, anxiety,sleep disturbance, fatigue, and pain in family caregivers of patients with cancer in the context of the Symptom Management Model (SMM)developed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). DATA SOURCES Published research studies and systematic reviews from 1990-2007. DATA SYNTHESIS Studies of depressive symptoms in caregiv...

The symptom cluster experience profile framework.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To present the novel Symptom Cluster Experience Profile (SCEP) framework for guiding symptom research in adult survivors of childhood cancers and other subgroups at risk for high symptom burden. DATA SOURCES Empirically derived model of symptom cluster experience profiles, existing theoretical frameworks, and data-based literature on symptoms and quality of life in adult su...

Noradrenergic symptom cluster in depression

Symptom cluster research: conceptual, design, measurement, and analysis issues.

Cancer patients may experience multiple concurrent symptoms caused by the cancer, cancer treatment, or their combination. The complex relationships between and among symptoms, as well as the clinical antecedents and consequences, have not been well described. This paper examines the literature on cancer symptom clusters focusing on the conceptualization, design, measurement, and analytic issues...

OMERACT-based fibromyalgia symptom subgroups: an exploratory cluster analysis

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to identify subsets of patients with fibromyalgia with similar symptom profiles using the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) core symptom domains. METHODS Female patients with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and currently meeting fibromyalgia research survey criteria completed the Brief Pain Inventory, the 30-item Profile of Mood States, the Medical ...