Journal of Nursing & Care

Akiko Kondo

Publications

• Research Article
  Structure of Life Adjustments by Lung Cancer Patients with Decreased Performance Status
  Author(s): Naoko Horii, Akiko Kondo, Harumi Ejiri and Atsuko MaekawaNaoko Horii, Akiko Kondo, Harumi Ejiri and Atsuko Maekawa
  
  Purpose: The structural characteristics of life adjustments among lung cancer patients with decreased Performance Status (PS) were investigated. Subjects and methods: Text analysis and cluster analysis were performed with data obtained from interviews of six lung cancer patients with PS 3 or 4 in one university hospital in Japan. The study was conducted from February to June 2009. Results: The mean age of subjects was 73.6 years. The text data included 623 records, and the number of keywords was 1,398. Keywords that appeared with high frequency were, in order, People (51), now (47), Disease (45), and Doctor (32). Positive type (173) and negative type (366) were extracted from a sensitivity analysis. Life adjustments of lung cancer patients were divided with a linguistic method into 20 categories: “Time period.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.S5-001

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