Care Dependency Trajectories Following Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer

A longitudinal observational study of 223 patients who underwent laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer. Care dependency was assessed at five postoperative time points, and trajectories were classified into four distinct groups. The dataset was authored by Zheng-Ke-Ke Tan and last updated on 2026-06-04.

Use Cases

• Modeling longitudinal care dependency trajectories based on repeated postoperative assessments.
• Identifying predictors of care dependency subtypes based on sociodemographic and clinical variables.
• Analyzing the relationship between psychological resilience and postoperative recovery outcomes.
• Comparing characteristics of patient groups with different dependency trajectories (e.g., low-stable vs. high-increased).

Strengths

• Longitudinal design with five specific postoperative assessment time points (day 1, 3, 6, 30, and 3 months).
• Analysis includes 206 patient trajectories classified into four distinct groups with reported percentages.
• Identifies six primary predictors of trajectory subtypes, including psychological resilience and albumin levels.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 15.3 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Longitudinal observational study using the Care Dependency Scale (CDS) and statistical analysis with SPSS and Mplus.

Time Range

Postoperative period from day 1 to 3 months.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 04:30:24; freshness should be verified.