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Study aim
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Determining the impact of the program based on the common sense model on illness perception and health promoting behaviors of women with breast cancer
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Design
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The clinical trial study has a control group, with parallel groups, without blinding, randomized on 72 patients, and the block method will be used for randomization.
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Settings and conduct
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The research population in this research includes all breast cancer patients referred to Omid Hospital and Al-Zahra Clinic in Isfahan and the office of oncology specialists in these centers who meet the inclusion criteria.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: confirmation of breast cancer diagnosis for the patient, awareness of the disease,وHaving at least 18 years of age, the ability to communicate verbally, at least literate in reading and writing in Farsi, at least two months and at most one year have passed since the treatment of the disease, diagnosis of the disease in stages I to IIIA, no history of psychiatric disease, no Family history of breast cancer in the patient's first degree family
Exclusion criteria: unwillingness to cooperate in the study, death or progression of the disease or severe physical and mental illnesses during the study, absence in a quarter of face-to-face meetings
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Intervention groups
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The intervention will be conducted by a nurse, a nutritionist and a psychologist for four consecutive weeks in 60 minutes, and in the fifth to seventh weeks, weekly question and answer sessions will be held with the intervention group via social media. The control group will receive routine care. At the end of the study, the people of the control group will be given pamphlets related to the training sessions of the intervention group, and for those who wish, the first training session will be held similar to the intervention group.
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Main outcome variables
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Illness perception, Health-promoting behaviors