Open AccessDistress in Patients With Acute Leukemia
Author(s) -
Tara Albrecht,
Margaret Rosenzweig
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cancer nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.79
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1538-9804
pISSN - 0162-220X
DOI - 10.1097/ncc.0b013e31829193ad
Subject(s) - distress , medicine , psychosocial , generalizability theory , psychological intervention , quality of life (healthcare) , operationalization , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychology , nursing , developmental psychology , philosophy , epistemology
Patients with acute leukemia (AL) require immediate and aggressive inpatient treatment that results in many weeks to months of hospitalization. Thus, it is not surprising that distress has been found in as many as 45.5% of patients. Although distress is a regularly reported outcome measure in clinical research, currently, there is a lack of a clear, consistent, and universal definition of this concept.