Albrecht Tara A
School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Oncol Nurs Forum. 2014 May;41(3):286-95. doi: 10.1188/14.ONF.286-295.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the current knowledge of symptoms experienced by adults with acute leukemia (AL) and provide evidence to inform practice and research.
Literature review using an electronic search supplemented by a hand search of current literature reporting the physiologic and/or psychological symptoms of patients with AL was conducted.
Because of the variability found in the methods and specific aims of the articles, a rating system was applied to score how strongly the findings contributed to meeting the aims of the research. This rating system was applied to assist the authors in analyzing the findings. Therefore, the articles that scored lower ultimately contributed less during the analysis phase.
Knowledge regarding the symptoms experienced by adults undergoing treatment is being slowly evaluated. However, to better understand and subsequently manage these symptoms, longitudinal research examining the symptom trajectories in this population is needed.
Additional investigation into symptom characteristics will facilitate the development of tailored interventions to manage the temporal characteristics of symptoms for this population.
目的/目标：评估成年急性白血病（AL）患者经历的症状的现有认知，并为实践和研究提供依据。
通过电子检索进行文献综述，并辅以手工检索当前报道AL患者生理和/或心理症状的文献。
由于文章的方法和具体目标存在差异，应用了一个评分系统来衡量研究结果对实现研究目标的贡献程度。该评分系统用于协助作者分析研究结果。因此，得分较低的文章在分析阶段的贡献最终较小。
正在对接受治疗的成年人经历的症状的认知进行缓慢评估。然而，为了更好地理解并随后管理这些症状，需要开展纵向研究来考察该人群的症状轨迹。
对症状特征进行更多调查将有助于制定针对性的干预措施，以管理该人群症状的时间特征。
