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Nurse-led Care Program for Cancer Patients in Chemotherapy Day Center

NCT02228200 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2014-08-28

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Summary

A nurse-led care program for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in an outpatient setting was formulated. The aim of the study was to assess the effect of this nurse-led care program on cancer patients who received neo-adjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy in a chemotherapy day center in terms of quality of life, symptom experiences, self-efficacy, health care utilization, and satisfaction with care. Specifically, the objectives are:

* To compare the differences of health care utilization between the two arms.
* To compare the differences of cancer patients' satisfaction with care between the two arms.
* To explore the experiences of cancer patients in the intervention arm.
* To understand the experiences of the intervention nurses of the program and their opinions on further development.

Conditions

  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Colorectal Neoplasms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nurse-led care

The nurse-led care consisted of a pre-chemotherapy nursing consultation and telephone follow-up sessions during chemotherapy. The nursing consultation was on the day of the first cycle before drug administration. It included: history review, overall status evaluation, need and problem assessment, information provision, psychological support, and referral. The telephone follow-up sessions were delivered within one week after the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6th, and 8th cycle. A telephone follow-up session included: (i) The overall status assessment and problem triage; (ii) Care delivery based on problem severity; (iii) Evaluation of the change of the problems on the following telephone call.

BEHAVIORAL

Routine care

Routine care includes: (1) Brief education on possible side-effects and coping skills before chemotherapy; (2) Care on chemotherapy day: vital sign assessment, casual communication between nurses and patients, video about chemotherapy and side effects management. (3) Care in chemotherapy intervals: hotline for patients when they have health problems at home.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shirley Siu Yin CHING, PHD · School of Nursing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic Universtiy

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-06-30
Primary Completion
2013-11-30
Completion
2014-01-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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