NCT05399160

Effect of Nurse-led Supportive Care on Quality of Life

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Izmir Bakircay University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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.

Conditions

• Quality of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nurse-led Supportive Care	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-03
• Primary completion: 2022-05-30
• Completion: 2022-06-10
• First posted: 2022-06-01
• Last updated: 2022-06-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)