The effect of supportive program on spouses caregiver burden and stress in women suffer breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy

1. Determination of the burden of care of spouses of women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy before, immediately and six weeks after the intervention program in the intervention and control groups 2. Determination of stress of spouse of women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy before, immediately and six weeks after intervention in control and intervention groups 3. Determination of stress of spouse of women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy before, immediately and six weeks after intervention program in intervention and control group 4. Determination of quality of life of women with breast cancer before intervention, immediately and six weeks after intervention program in intervention and control group

The experimental and control groups were factorial and non-blinded.

Babolsar Shahid Rajaee Hospital Randomization to intervention and control groups The 6 sessions were conducted by the intervention group of 90, 20 and 30 minutes Assessment at three times before, immediately and 6 weeks after intervention

Inclusion criteria: Being Iranian, Literacy, 25 to 60 years old, Monogamy, First Patient receiving chemotherapy, Stage 1 to 3, Patients undergoing chemotherapy , Willingness to participate in the study , Lack of education in medical and paramedical fields, no concurrent counseling or 6 months in advance, no severe psychiatric disorder based on individual history, no depression and severe anxiety , no use of psychiatric drugs Currently , non-addiction, lack of psychiatric and psychological disorders in caregivers. And the patient Exclusion criteria: The exclusion criteria in this study is not considered

The intervention group included the wives of women with breast cancer

The effect of supportive program on spouses and women with breast cancer

In the absence of anxiety and depression, further explanations of how the study was conducted to evaluate participation in the informed and written consent study will be obtained from men. Then random allocation for participants is described. Moreover, ethical questions will be answered by participants who did not consent to participate in the study or who were eligible for the study but who were included in the control group. Are given. Afterwards, 80 eligible study caregivers who entered our study will be randomly divided into intervention and control groups. Therefore, 20 blocks and 4 blocks in each group were selected by software using permuted block randomization method. The number of intervention and control groups is equal in each block. In the following, 80 envelopes will be prepared to comply with the concealment principle and the specified groups will be divided into groups I and C in each envelope.The first envelope belongs to the first participant, whose content, based on previous blocking, will determine the task of participants of the entering the intervention or control group.