Effectiveness of dietary fiber experiential learning on bowel symptom after surgery for colorectal cancer: A randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: Patients with colorectal cancer commonly experience postoperative bowel symptoms, and demand dietary and self-care adjustment. Experiential learning (EL) has been effective in promoting dietary management. This study aimed to investigate the effect of dietary-fiber EL on postoperative bowel symptoms in colorectal cancer patients.

A Decade of Changes in Family Caregivers' Preferences for Life-Sustaining Treatments for Terminally Ill Cancer Patients at End of Life in the Context of a Family-Oriented Society.

Context: Temporal changes in different family caregiver cohorts' preferences for life-sustaining treatments (LSTs) at end of life (EOL) have not been examined nor have the concept of whether caregivers' LST preferences represent a homogeneous or heterogeneous construct. Furthermore, LST preferences are frequently assessed from multiple treatments, making clinical applications difficult/infeasible.

Objectives: To identify parsimonious patterns and changes in the pattern of LST preferences for two independent cohorts of family caregivers for terminally ill Taiwanese cancer patients.

Preferences for Aggressive End-of-life Care and Their Determinants Among Taiwanese Terminally Ill Cancer Patients.

Background: Studies on factors influencing preferences for aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care have focused predominantly on preferred goals of EOL and seldom comprehensively incorporate patients' predisposing, enabling, and need factors into their analyses.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the determinants of preferences for a wide range of aggressive EOL care from the aforementioned factors.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using a convenience sample of 2329 terminally ill cancer patients recruited from 23 hospitals throughout Taiwan.