Effects of Telephone Intervention as Supportive Nursing on Self-Care Practices and Qualify of Life for Gynecological Cancer Patients under Chemotherapy / 간호학회지
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
; : 744-753, 2007.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-169179
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
The effects of telephone intervention on self-care practices and quality of life for gynecological cancer patients under chemotherapy was investigated.METHODS:
A non-equivalent control group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design was used. The subjects were women cancer patients who had received less than two chemotherapy sessions at C university hospital of Chonnam province(26 in the experimental group 25 in the control group). The patient's self-care practices(Na & Lee, 1999; Jang, 2004) and quality of life(Lee & Jo, 1997) were measured three times. using a questionnaire. The data was analyzed by Repeated Measures ANOVA, the Friedman test, and the Mann-Whitney test using the SPSS window version 12.0 program.RESULTS:
This study showed that the score of self-care practices and quality of life for the experimental group under telephone counseling were higher than those of the control group.CONCLUSION:
This study revealed that a telephone intervention as supportive nursing care for women cancer patients under going chemotherapy was effective for self-care practices and qualify of life during the recovery period. Futhermore, this study also suggests that telephone counseling can serve as a continuing nursing supportive intervention for women cancer patients for the upcoming stages of further chemotherapy.
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Health context:
SDG3 - Health and Well-Being
Health problem:
Target 3.4: Reduce premature mortality due to noncommunicable diseases
Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Quality of Life
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Self Care
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Specialties, Nursing
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Telephone
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Time Factors
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Patient Education as Topic
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Models, Nursing
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Genital Neoplasms, Female
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Aspects:
Patient-preference
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
Year:
2007
Document type:
Article