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Effectiveness of Tailored Rehabilitation Education on Health Literacy and Health Status of Postoperative Patients With Breast Cancer: a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT02664662 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 99

Last updated 2017-11-22

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Summary

For the past few years, the survival rate of breast cancer improved due to the advancement of surgery techniques and popularization of cancer screening. However, prolonged survival rate is definitely not equal to achieving a sound quality of life among breast cancer survivors. The health status of cancer survivors might deteriorate according to the severe side effect of multiple therapies.

Health literacy is the ability to access, understand, evaluate and communication information as a way to promote and maintain health. Therefore, good health literacy raise the quality of life of breast cancer survivors by a good competence in searching and using medical resources. Moreover, how to improve health literacy after cancer surgery becomes an important part recently. Even if the most fundamental concept has promoted for decades, the clinical workers still use the identical education of medical care after surgery for breast cancer survivors. However, the identical education is not appropriate for each of patients. In fact, each of breast cancer survivors has the different cancer stage leading to accept different therapy and producing different side effect. Besides, the background and the role of life are very different from each other. Because of the above reasons, the aim of the study is going to develop a tailored rehabilitated education, which fit for each breast cancer patients after surgery in clinic. At the same time, the health literacy ability might be improved by tailored rehabilitated education. When health literacy level is raised, the breast cancer survivors have a good quality of life and beautiful health status.

Conditions

  • Health Behavior

Interventions

OTHER

tailored education

Tailored rehabilitated education is which fit for each breast cancer patients after surgery in clinic. We design three of tailored books for experimental group. Each patients will be tailored by three principles. First, the educated times and hours are depended on patients physical function and learning ability. Second, the material is depended on each patient's life experience. Finally, the educated content is depended on patient's operation method.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Taipei Medical University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bi-Chu Lin · Taipei Medical University

  • Wen-Hsuan Hou · Taipei Medical University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-09-30
Completion
2017-09-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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