@article{b86988dccc1047f191b1b9390efb4698,
title = "Exploring the Relationship Between Health–Illness Transition Experiences and Distress Among Patients With Pancreatic Cancer",
abstract = "OBJECTIVES: To explore the correlation between health–illness transition (HIT) experiences and distress among patients with pancreatic cancer. SAMPLE & SETTING: 55 patients with a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer receiving chemotherapy at a tertiary cancer center in New York. METHODS & VARIABLES: A prospective correlational study was performed to explore the frequency, extent, and management of HITs. HITs were evaluated using the Measurement of Transitions in Cancer Scale, and distress was measured with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Distress Thermometer. RESULTS: All patients experienced at least one HIT. The extent of HITs decreased over time. Patients reported that they managed HITs moderately well. There was a significant correlation between unmanaged HITs and distress. As distress increased, the extent of the physical and emotional HITs increased and management worsened. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: HITs are ubiquitous among patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Associated distress inhibits management. Nurses are well suited to assess for potential HITs and to support self-management of HITs.",
keywords = "distress, health–illness transitions, pancreatic cancer",
author = "Goldberg, {Jessica I.} and Flynn, {Jessica R.} and Baser, {Raymond E.} and Nelson, {Judith E.} and Elizabeth Capezuti and Dena Schulman-Green",
note = "Funding Information: Jessica I. Goldberg, PhD, RN, is a supportive care service nurse practitioner and Jessica R. Flynn, MS, and Raymond E. Baser, MS, are research biostatisticians in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, all at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Judith E. Nelson, MD, JD, is a supportive care service attending physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a professor of medicine in the Weill Cornell Medical College at Weill Cornell Medicine; Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a professor and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Chair in Gerontology in the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at Hunter College of the City University of New York; and Dena Schulman-Green, MA, EdM, MS, PhD, is an associate professor in the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University, all in New York, NY. Goldberg can be reached at goldbej3@mskcc.org, with copy to ONFEditor@ons.org. (Submitted January 2023. Accepted May 12, 2023.) This research was supported, in part, by the Robert Wood Johnson Future of Nursing Scholars Program (Grant No. 74337; principal investigator: Goldberg) and a National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA008748; principal investigators: Goldberg, Flynn, Baser, and Nelson). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, Oncology Nursing Society. All rights reserved.",
year = "2023",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1188/23.ONF.625-633",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "50",
pages = "625--633",
journal = "Oncology nursing forum",
issn = "0190-535X",
publisher = "Oncology Nursing Society",
number = "5",
}