Author: Cynthia R King, Pamela S Hinds

Quality of Life: From Nursing and Patient Perspectives, Third Edition is a comprehensive text that offers a unique perspective on quality of life by reflecting the voices of patients and families receiving or having received care for cancer. It is an ideal reference for oncology nursing students and oncology nurses in a variety of settings, including inpatient units, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers, cancer centers, research centers, home care agencies, and hospices. Topics explore evolution of quality of life in oncology, theories and conceptual models, life methodological and measurement issues, clinical implications, cancer survivorship, and quality of life stories by patients and families. Completely updated and revised, this new edition contains two new research chapters and new material on chronic illness, measuring quality of life in different age groups, and patient perspectives.

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1  Evolution of Quality of Life in Oncology and Oncology Nursing
Chapter 2  Overview of Quality of Life and Controversial Issues
Chapter 3  Theories and Conceptual Models to Guide Quality of Life Related Research
Chapter 4  Conceptualization and Measurement of Quality of Life and Related Concepts: Guidelines for Chapter 5  Spiritual Quality of Life
Chapter 6  Quality of Life and Culture
Chapter 7  Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents with Cancer
Chapter 8  Quality of Life Methodological and Measurement Issues
Chapter 9  Quality of Life and Symptoms
Chapter 10  Quality of Life and Chronic Illness
Chapter 11  The Design, Conduct and Analysis of HRQOL Studies: A Statistician’s Perspective
Chapter 12  NCI/NIH – QOL and Cooperative Group Measurements
Chapter 13  Quality of Life Issues in Breast and Prostate Cancer
Chapter 14  Clinical Implications of Quality of Life
Chapter 15  Quality of Life Issues Related to Marrow Transplantation
Chapter 16  A European Perspective on Quality of Life of Stem Cell Transplantation Patients
Chapter 17  Fatigue and Sleep and Quality of Life A Question of Balance
Chapter 18  Cancer Survivorship Quality for Life
Chapter 19  Quality of Life Stories by Patients and Families
Chapter 20  Nursing and Patient Perspectives on Quality of Life

©2012, 570 pages.