Experiences of the fatigue-pain-sleep disturbance symptom cluster among patients with lung cancer: A descriptive qualitative study
Qianlin Lai, Wenwen Lu, Lin Xiao, Yuanyuan Luo, Zhihui Yang, Jingxia Miao, Peijuan Chen, Lili Zhang · 2025
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Qianlin Lai and co-authors interview lung cancer patients about a trio of symptoms in a 2025 study. Fatigue, pain, and broken sleep often arrive together and feed each other. Nurses see the cluster daily, but how patients themselves perceive and handle it was less clear. The team ran deep interviews at a large hospital in China.
Twenty patients described the cluster in their own words. Three themes emerged from the talks. Patients differed in how keenly they sensed body changes and when they noticed the cluster tighten. The cluster eroded strength, steadied neither mood nor family ease, and pushed people to withdraw from social life. Coping split between active adjustment and passive acceptance. The study argues care should treat the cluster as one problem, not three.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Qianlin Lai, Wenwen Lu, Lin Xiao, Yuanyuan Luo, Zhihui Yang, Jingxia Miao, Peijuan Chen, Lili Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |