Cancer nursing practice development: understanding breathlessness
Cancer nursing practice development: understanding breathlessness
• This paper considers methodological and philosophical issues that arose during a multi-centre, randomized controlled trial of a new nursing intervention to manage breathlessness with patients with primary lung cancer.
• Despite including a diverse range of instruments to measure the effects of the intervention, the uniqueness of individuals' experiences of breathlessness were often hidden by a requirement to frame the study within a reductionist research approach.
• Evidence from the study suggests that breathlessness is only partly defined when understood and explored within a bio-medical framework, and that effective therapy can only be achieved once the nature and impact of breathlessness have been understood from the perspective of the individual experiencing it.
• We conclude that to work therapeutically we need to know how patients interpret their illness and its resultant problems and that this demands methodological creativity.
breathlessness, nursing intervention, multi-centre randomized controlled trial, symptom management research
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Krishnasamy, M.
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Corner, J.
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Bredin, M.
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Plant, H.
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Bailey, C.
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2001
Krishnasamy, M.
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Corner, J.
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Bredin, M.
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Plant, H.
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Bailey, C.
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Krishnasamy, M., Corner, J., Bredin, M., Plant, H. and Bailey, C.
(2001)
Cancer nursing practice development: understanding breathlessness.
Journal of Clinical Nursing, 10 (1), .
Abstract
• This paper considers methodological and philosophical issues that arose during a multi-centre, randomized controlled trial of a new nursing intervention to manage breathlessness with patients with primary lung cancer.
• Despite including a diverse range of instruments to measure the effects of the intervention, the uniqueness of individuals' experiences of breathlessness were often hidden by a requirement to frame the study within a reductionist research approach.
• Evidence from the study suggests that breathlessness is only partly defined when understood and explored within a bio-medical framework, and that effective therapy can only be achieved once the nature and impact of breathlessness have been understood from the perspective of the individual experiencing it.
• We conclude that to work therapeutically we need to know how patients interpret their illness and its resultant problems and that this demands methodological creativity.
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Published date: 2001
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breathlessness, nursing intervention, multi-centre randomized controlled trial, symptom management research
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