Symptom Clusters and Their Impact on Spiritual Well-Being Among Women with Breast Cancer.

Purpose: To explore symptom experience and symptom clusters among Jordanian women with breast cancer and investigate whether these clusters predict patients' spiritual well-being.

Patients And Methods: A sample of 142 Jordanian women with breast cancer were asked to complete the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS), Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy- Spiritual Well-being (FACIT-Sp) scale, and socio-demographic questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis was used to group symptoms into clusters, and multiple linear regression was used to explore the symptom clusters that predict spiritual well-being.

Spiritual well-being among patients newly diagnosed with cancer in Jordan: thematic analysis.

Purpose: Patients newly diagnosed with cancer experience a grief process that disturbs their spiritual well-being. The purpose of this study was to explore the spiritual well-being among patients with cancer within the first 3 months of diagnosis.

Methods: The study used a qualitative approach using thematic analysis.

Knowledge of pulse oximetry among emergency and critical care nurses.

Background: The pulse oximeter is a simple, cost-effective and reliable device for estimating arterial blood oxygen saturation. Nurses are required to be knowledgeable in pulse oximeter use. Little is known about nurses' knowledge of pulse oximetry in the Middle East region.

The buffering role of social support on the severity of physical symptoms among patients living with cancer.

Background: The role of perceived social support (the individual's perception that family, friends and others are available as psychological, social and material support) and its moderating effect on the psychological and physical factors among patients suffering medical problems is still debated.

Aim: To explore the effect of perceived social support on the relationship between psychological and health-related factors on the severity of physical symptoms among patients with cancer.

Methods: A descriptive-correlational, cross-sectional design was used to recruit 459 patients with cancer from three major hospitals in Jordan.

The experience of family support among patients newly diagnosed with cancer in Jordan.

Purpose: To describe the experiences of family support from the perspectives of patients newly diagnosed with cancer.

Methods: Descriptive qualitative phenomenological design was undertaken, including in-depth individual interviews with 13 newly diagnosed cancer patients from two hospitals in Jordan.

Results: Three themes emerged: 'being there,' 'family reunion and connectedness,' and 'gratified with family support.

The effect of spiritual well-being on symptom experience in patients with cancer.

Purpose: To explore the effect of spiritual well-being on the symptom experience of patients with cancer.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional survey that enrolled 459 patients with cancer from three large hospitals in Jordan in 2018. Participants completed questionnaires related to demographic data, spiritual well-being, and symptom experience.

Symptom Clusters Change Over Time in Women Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer.

Context: Patients with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy (CTX) experience multiple concurrent symptoms, but little is known about how symptoms change during and after treatment. Knowledge of the identity and trajectory of symptom clusters (SCs) would enhance measurement and management.

Objectives: We aimed to identify SCs and their change over time from baseline to completion of breast cancer CTX.