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Study aim
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Determining the Effect of a Supportive Educational Program to Promote the Health of Women with Breast Cancer on the Quality of Life, Hope and Family Support during Surgery and Chemotherapy
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Design
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A clinical trial with a control group, non-parallel groups, single-blind, non-randomized, phase 3 on 304 patients with breast cancer in the stages of chemotherapy and surgery
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Settings and conduct
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The research environment will be Omid Hospital in Mashhad. The intervention includes the implementation of the health promotion program, which includes educational, support and follow-up sessions. First, sampling of the control group will be done, then the program will be implemented for the intervention group and the questionnaires will be completed by the implementation group
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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The patient is a new case of breast cancer;
He is a candidate for mastectomy surgery or a candidate for a chemotherapy protocol;
Be a woman;
Be between the ages of 25 and 65;
Be Iranian;
Ability to read and write in Farsi language.
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Intervention groups
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First, the sampling of the control group will be done independently until a sufficient sample size is reached for both surgery and chemotherapy groups. Control groups will receive only routine care. Then the intervention, which consists of the implementation of an educational support program for health promotion, will be implemented for two groups of surgery and chemotherapy. For both chemotherapy groups (intervention and control) questionnaires related to quality of life, hope and family support on dates 0, 1 and 3 months after the start of treatment and for both surgery groups (intervention and control) questionnaires related to Quality of life, hope and family support will be completed on the day of discharge and 8 weeks after surgery.
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Main outcome variables
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Quality of life, hope and family support