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Effect of Nurse-led Education on Parent's Anxiety and Depression on Managing Side Effects of Chemotherapy

NCT03753542 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2022-07-28

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Summary

ABSTRACT

Background:

Today, a wide range of pediatric cancers is treated by chemotherapy. More than 21 side effects of chemotherapy have been identified. Among those nausea; vomiting, infection and anemia are most common. The adverse effects are normally managed by the parents at home. Ineffective coping and lack of knowledge about chemotherapy side effect management leads parents stress. Contemporary research evidence that Nurse-led education, booklet providence and follow up about chemotherapy and side effect management, help to decrease parents anxiety and depression.

Objectives:

To measure the effect of nurse-led multimedia education, booklet providence and telephonic follow up about chemotherapy and side effects management on parents anxiety and depression of children receiving chemotherapy for the first time.

Methodology:

A randomized control trial will be conducted in the department of chemotherapy at Indus Children Cancer Hospital Karachi from March 2018 to August 2018 on parents of children below 18 years of age undergoing chemotherapy for the first time. Total 100 parents will be randomly divided into Intervention group (n=50) and Control Group (n=50). The Intervention group will received multimedia education, booklet and weekly tele-nursing follow-up about chemotherapy and side effects management. The Control group will receive routine care. Parent's anxiety and depression will be identified by using DASS-21 and generalized estimating estimation will be used to analyzed the data.

Keywords:

Nurse-led, Multimedia education, Booklet, telephonic follow-up, chemotherapy, side effects, parents, anxiety, depression, children, cancer

Conditions

  • Chemotherapy Effect

Interventions

OTHER

Multimedia education, booklet Providence and tele-nursing follow-up

Multimedia education, booklet and weekly tele-nursing follow-up is about chemotherapy and side effects management

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Indus Hospital and Health Network

    collaborator OTHER

  • Nomi Waqas Gul

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dr. Mehwish HUSSAIN, PhD (Statistics) · Assistant Professor, DUHS, Karachi

  • Dr. SHAMVIL ASHRAF, MBBS, DCH, MCPS, FCPS, MRCP · Indus Hospital Karachi

  • Mr. Hakim Shah, MSN · Associate Professor Institute of Nursing Dow University of Health Sciences Karachi

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-06
Primary Completion
2018-12-30
Completion
2019-06-15

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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