Effect of Nurse-led Supportive Care on Quality of Life

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women with a high mortality rate in the world. The several methods are used in the treatment of breast cancer. One or more of these methods can be preferred according to the characteristics of women with breast cancer. Women may experience many different physiological and psychological symptoms during each treatment process.This situation negatively affects the quality of life of women with breast cancer. For this reason, there is a need for an intervention that could improve quality of life in women with breast cancer. In the literature, it is stated that nurse-led supportive care can be an effective nursing intervention to improve the quality of life in women with breast cancer.

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Key information

Conditions

Quality of Life Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Skin Diseases Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Izmir Bakircay University Health Sciences Faculty

Izmir, 35560, Turkey (Türkiye)

About this study

This an assessor-blinded, parallel group randomized controlled trial aimed that investigating the effect of nurse-led supportive care on quality of life in women with breast cancer. This trial was conducted in the general surgery clinic of training and research hospital located in Turkey. All patients were women who had breast surgery.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

18 years and older women,
Stages II or III breast cancer
Having breast cancer surgery
Planned to receive chemotherapy
Able to use a phone
Who agreed to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

Having communication problems
Having psychological diseases
Receiving any supportive care

Treatment and study plan

Nurse-led Supportive Care

Behavioral

Nurse-led supportive care was given to women who had breast surgery and planned to receive chemotherapy. Nurse-led supportive care was applied to women for eight weeks in the form of face-to-face clinic and telephone interviews.It took an average of 30 minutes to interview women with breast cancer at the clinic, and 15 minutes on average by phone.

Primary outcomes

European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life questionnaire-Core Questionnaire (QLQ-C30)

Time frame: Change from Baseline Quality of Life score at 9th weeks.

The scale was developed to assess the quality of life of cancer patients. It contains three domains that measure global health status/quality of life, functional and symptom status. Global quality of life is assessed using global health status and quality of life. Functional status consists of the following five subscales: physical function, role function, emotional function, cognitive function and social function. Symptom status consists of the following nine subscales: fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, dyspnoea, insomnia, appetite loss, constipation, diarrhoea and financial difficulties. The total score that can be obtained from the scale ranges from 0 to 100. The internal consistency of scale in the Turkish version was determined as 0.90.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Izmir Bakircay University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Effect of Nurse-led Supportive Care on Quality of Life in Women With Breast Cancer: An Assessor-blinded, Parallel Group, Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start: 2022
Primary completion: 2022
Study completion: 2022
First posted: Jun 1, 2022
Registry last updated: Jun 30, 2022

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