Patient education programs for cancer-related fatigue: A systematic review

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1308-1319

  Du, Shizheng ^a   Hu, Lingli ^b   Dong, Jianshu ^c   Xu, Guihua ^a   Jin, Shengji ^a   Zhang, Heng ^a   Yin, Haiyan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Institute of Shanghai Metallurgy   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer related fatigue; Patient education; Symptom management; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RELATED FATIGUE; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; EFFECT SIZE; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LUNG CANCER; NEOPLASM; NUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; STOMACH CANCER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; COMPLICATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

FATIGUE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84943818546     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2015.05.003     Document Type: Review

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