effect of telephone counseling and education on breast cancer screening in family caregivers of breast cancer patients

Background: Breast cancer is the most common form of malignancy among females. Family history is a key risk factor for breast cancer. Breast cancer screening practices are vital in patients with family history of breast cancer. Telephone counseling and education may be appropriate for improved breast cancer screening. This study was done to determine family caregiver patients' knowledge of risk factors for breast cancer and practice of breast cancer screening and also to assess the effect of telephone counseling and education on mammography screening

Methods: This study was a community-based trial. The participants of the study were 90 caregivers who were randomly divided into an experimental group, telephone counseling and education, and a control group. The intervention group received counseling and education phone calls. A three-section questionnaire was responded and filled out through telephone interviews with the participants. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS18, using descriptive and inferential statistics

Results: The results showed that 88.9% of the participants did not know when to do breast self-exam [BSE]. Mammography was performed by the participants before and after the telephone counseling in intervention group [P<0.00], which were 13.3% and 77.8% respectively]. Moreover, the major cause of failure to participate in mammography was lack of enough knowledge in 73.3% of the participants

Conclusion: This study concluded that knowledge and practice on breast cancer screening in family caregiver of breast cancer patients was low. Telephone counseling and educating may provide a suitable technique for earlier detection of breast cancer in family caregivers of breast cancer patients and it can influence the decision making regarding mammography screening among 40-year-old or older women

Study of respecting patients rights from nurses point of view employed in Yazd hospitals

Respecting patient's rights are those factors that they expect from health centers. It means that the patients regardless to their age, sex, race, and other differences have some rights such as: knowing, selecting, being respected, confidentiality, territoriality and receiving efficient care and objection. Nurses duty also is to respect patient, rights. This is a cross-sectional study which is done in order to determine the nurse's level of respect for the patient's rights. This study carried out on 280 nurses was selected through stratified randomized sampling. Data was collected via a questionnaire about demographic information and patient's rights situations for measured level of respect, which is Analized via SPSS soft ware. The result showed moderate respect for patient's rights. In more than half of cases [9.78 +/- 2.60] The result indicated a meaningful different between respect for patient's rights and work [p=0.006]. Results show that patient's rights regarding the importance of matter is at medium level which isn's satisfactory and to increase. These recipients of health care it is necessary to do some measures such as: approval of laws related to patient's and nurses rights and creation sanctions in order to observe better and qualified patient's care