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Feasibility Study: Home Telemonitoring for Patients With Lung Cancer in a Mountainous Rural Area

Trisha M. Petitte
Georgia L. Narsavage
Yea-Jyh Chen
Charles Coole
Tara Forth
Kevin D. Frick
ONF 2014, 41(2), 153-161 DOI: 10.1188/14.ONF.153-161
Purpose/Objectives: To explore the feasibility of rural home telemonitoring for patients with lung cancer. Design: Exploratory, descriptive, observational. Setting: Patient homes within a 75-mile radius of the study hospital in West Virginia. Sample: 10 patients hospitalized with lung cancer as a...
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Oncology Rehabilitation Outcomes Over Time: A Mixed-Methods Approach

Elizabeth J. Predeger
Maureen O'Malley
Thomas Hendrix
Nadine M. Parker
ONF 2014, 41(2), E56-E63 DOI: 10.1188/14.ONF.E56-E63
Purpose/Objectives: To evaluate an oncology rehabilitation program over time. Design: A cross-sectional, retrospective program evaluation using a mixed-methods approach. Setting: An outpatient oncology rehabilitation program housed in an urban, hospital-based comprehensive cancer center in Alaska...
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Quality of Life and Related Factors in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Advanced Lung Cancer: A Longitudinal Study

Yu-Chien Liao
Shiow-Ching Shun
Wei-Yu Liao
Chong-Jen Yu
Pan-Chyr Yang
Yeur-Hur Lai
ONF 2014, 41(2), E44-E55 DOI: 10.1188/14.ONF.E44-E55
Purpose/Objectives: To examine the changes in quality of life (QOL), symptoms, self-efficacy for coping with cancer, and factors related to those changes in patients with newly diagnosed advanced lung cancer. Design: Longitudinal and correlational. Setting: Oncology inpatient wards and outpatient...
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Importance of Meaning-Making for Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Katharine E. Adelstein
Joel G. Anderson
Ann Gill Taylor
ONF 2014, 41(2), E172-E184 DOI: 10.1188/14.ONF.E172-E184
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this integrative literature review of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for hematologic malignancies was to determine whether meaning-making might be helpful to improve coping and psychological adaptation as patients navigate HSCT. Data Sources:...
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Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer: Disease-Specific Quality-of-Life Concerns and Distress

George Radiotis
Nicole Roberts
Zofia Czajkowska
Manish Khanna
Annett Körner
ONF 2014, 41(1), 57-65 DOI: 10.1188/14.ONF.57-65
Purpose/Objectives: To provide a better understanding of the disease-specific quality-of-life (QOL) concerns of patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC). Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Skin cancer clinic of Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Sample: 56 patients with basal...
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