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- Arman, Maria, et al.
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Indications of change in life perspective among women with breast cancer admitted to complementary care
- 2001
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Ingår i: European Journal of Cancer Care. - OXFORD : BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD. - 0961-5423 .- 1365-2354. ; 10:3, s. 192-200
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, qualitative content analysis was used in order to understand the reported changes of life perspective in interviews with 59 women with breast cancer who were admitted to complementary care. The aim of this research was to study women's perceived consequences as well as perceived causes of breast cancer and to explore aspects of importance to the women. The material was collected in semistructured interviews from women with breast cancer at different stages of the disease. The women received complementary care at an anthroposophic clinic in Sweden. Findings showed that these women's view of their relationships with others grew more valuable. Their self-confidence and experience of strength improved, and they regarded life as being more enriched. A change in their disposition towards becoming more fragile and low-spirited was experienced as a hardship by the women. Am interesting finding was that the patients described the aetiology of the disease from several interacting perspectives, which also affected their ideas of how to achieve wellbeing and health. The findings support the view that changes of both benefit and harm are present in the experience of breast cancer.
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- Carlsson, Marianne, et al.
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Evaluation of quality of life/life satisfaction in women with breast cancer in complementary and conventional care
- 2004
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Ingår i: Acta Oncologica. - OSLO : TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS. - 0284-186X .- 1651-226X. ; 43:1, s. 27-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim was to study the perceived quality of life/life satisfaction in a sample of women with breast cancer who were treated in a hospital with alternative/complementary care and the same variables in individually matched patients who received only conventional medical treatment. A non-randomized controlled trial design with repeated measurements was used. Sixty women with breast cancer treated with anthroposophic medicine (ABCW) and 60 with conventional medicine (CBCW) were included and 36 matched pairs took part on all occasions. The quality of life was measured by the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (LSQ). The comparisons were calculated as effect sizes (ES). The women in the ABCW group reported small or moderate effects, expressed as ES, on their quality of life/life satisfaction compared to their matched "twins'' in the CBCW group at the 1-year follow-up in 15 out of 21 scales/factors. It was concluded that the women who had chosen anthroposophic care increased their perceived quality of life/life satisfaction according to the methodology of the study.
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- Carlsson, Marianne, et al.
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Evaluation of the life satisfaction questionnaire (LSQ) using structural equation modelling (SEM)
- 2002
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Ingår i: Quality of Life Research. - 0962-9343 .- 1573-2649. ; 11:5, s. 415-425
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The life satisfaction questionnaire (LSQ) was developed for use in conventional and complementary/anthroposophic care to assess the quality of life/life satisfaction of Swedish women with breast cancer. The first attempt to test the reliability and validity was in a sample of women with breast cancer (n = 362), the second in a random sample of Swedish women (n = 257). A theoretical model with six latent and 34 manifest variables was formulated. The aim of the present study was to perform confirmatory factor analyses using structural equation modelling. The software STREAMS was used. An additional sample of men (n = 263) was randomly selected from the Swedish population register. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed for the combined sample of women and men (n = 520) and for the women with breast cancer. The result of the confirmatory factor analyses showed that the factor structure of the original model was confirmed. The factors were called physical symptoms (PS), sickness impact (SI), quality of everyday activities (QDA), socio-economic situation (SES), quality of family relation (QFA), and quality of close friend relationship (QFR).
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- Carlsson, Marianne, et al.
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Perceived quality of life and coping for Swedish women with breast cancer who choose complementary medicine
- 2001
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Ingår i: Cancer Nursing. - PHILADELPHIA : LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. - 0162-220X .- 1538-9804. ; , s. 395-401
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the present study, which is part of a major clinical controlled study of the life situation of women with breast cancer, was to compare two groups of women concerning perceived quality of life and coping. The women were treated in two different cancer treatment programs: complementary treatment, which included anthroposophic therapy, and conventional cancer treatment. A total of 120 women were included, 60 women treated with anthroposophic medicine, and 60 individually matched women treated with conventional medicine only. Quality of life was measured by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Quality of Life Questionnaire, Core 30, and the Life Satisfaction Questionnaire. Coping was measured by the Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale. The results showed that the women who chose anthroposophic therapy perceived their quality of life to be lower on admission to the hospital and showed more anxious preoccupation than the women in conventional medicine. It can be concluded that, due to the careful matching procedure, the women in the two groups are comparable in a medical sense but not from the perspective of quality of life and coping.
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- Gunningberg, Lena, 1954-, et al.
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Reduced incidence of pressure ulcers in patients with hip fractures : a 2-year follow-up of quality indicators
- 2001
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Ingår i: International Journal for Quality in Health Care. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1353-4505 .- 1464-3677. ; 13:5, s. 399-407
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the framework of a quality improvement project, where research activities were integrated with practice-based developmental work, the incidence of pressure ulcers was reduced significantly in patients with hip fractures. The best predictor of pressure ulcer development was increased age.
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