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KMID : 0377619940590070579
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1994 Volume.59 No. 7 p.579 ~ p.589
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Fatigue in Cancer Patients
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Chun Chung-Ja
Kwon Young-Eun
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Abstract
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Fatigue is common and disruptive symptom for individuals with cancer. Fatigue is generally a subjective feeling of increased discomfort and decreased efficiency resulting from a variety of physiological, psychological, and situational factors.
Many of these factors represent sources of physical and mental stress which deplete energy. People with cancer are susceptible to fatigue because they are continuously faced with many stressors over a prolonged period of time.
If not managed, impaired functional status with a decreased quality of life may result. The goal of nursing care is facilitating adaptation to fatigue, thereby minimizing it and maintaining of enhancing quality of life.
Interventions are directed at managing stress and conserving energy. Assessment, patient education, and counseling are key roles for oncology nurses caring for fatigued patients.
Therefore, this paper has summarized the various mechanisms that most likely influence the signs and symptoms of fatigue in the cancer population.
Thus, this framework can be used to guide clinicians in fatigue assessments and interventions. This framework also can be used by nursing investigators to communicate 4rnd to synthesize multidisciplinary research findings more readily and to guide future research programs in fatigue.
This will enable nurses to predict who may be at high risk of experiencing fatigue, and to prescribe effective nursing intervention.
It is hope that this framework will speed knowledge and theory development about this pervasive and distressing phenomenon in cancer patients.
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