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Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: exploring patients’ subjective experience

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, April 2016
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Title
Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: exploring patients’ subjective experience
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Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, April 2016
DOI 10.2147/jmdh.s97695
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Noor Salihah, Nik Mazlan, Pei Lin Lua

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the subjective experience of nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy treatment among breast cancer patients and the impacts on their daily lives. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted in breast cancer patients who received chemotherapy and had experienced nausea and/or vomiting. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using content analysis based on Giorgi's method. Of 15 patients who participated, 13 were included in the final analysis (median age =46 years, interquartile range [IQR] =6.0; all were Malays). Vomiting was readily expressed as the "act of throwing up", but nausea was a symptom that was difficult to describe. Further exploration found great individual variation in patterns, intensity, and impact of these chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) symptoms. While not all patients expressed CINV as bothersome, most patients described the symptom as quite distressing. CINV was reported to affect many aspects of patients' lives particularly eating, physical, emotional, and social functioning, but the degree of impacts was unique to each patient. One of the important themes that emerged was the increase in worship practices and "faith in God" among Malay Muslim patients when dealing with these adverse effects. CINV continues to be a problem that adversely affects the daily lives of patients, hence requiring better understandings from the health care professionals on patients' needs and concerns when experiencing this symptom.

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Unknown 66 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 20%
Student > Bachelor 10 15%
Student > Postgraduate 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 8%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 18 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 17 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 17 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 June 2016.
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#6,591,936
of 25,576,275 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
#251
of 1,009 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#87,541
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
#6
of 16 outputs
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