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Conditions
Brief summary
The primary purposes of this study to determine the effectiveness of psycho-education intervention program on quality of life, coping strategies and psychological distress among Jordanian women diagnosis with breast cancer in Al-Bashir hospital, the researcher will be checked if there is a significant association between sociodemographic and clinical characteristic on quality of life, coping strategies and psychological distress, and if the psycho-education intervention program will be a significant score with the dependent variable. The study will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT), in which 200 participants will be chosen from clinical radiation oncology department in Al-Bashir hospital in Amman city, Jordan. Breast cancer patients will be invited to participate in this study by randomization enrollment with two groups, the intervention group will receive psycho-education intervention program (two- days, five sessions, five health messages, and booklet) and the control group will receive standard care in hospital (routine advice in health care) usually by the social welfare services team (two time per week). The researcher will be focused on how can help women with breast cancer to cope better with her disease, by giving basic information on breast cancer, how to deal with treatment and side effects, proper nutrition and foods to be avoided, physical activity, define of problem-solving, define coping strategy, stress management technique by using a calming technique, and effective communication skill with your husband, some survivor's personal experience sharing stories. The expected outcome of this study will be improved the quality of life, and significant redaction of psychological distress Among breast cancer patients by effecting the psycho-educational intervention program on coping strategy and re-appraisal to accept their stressful situation.
Interventions
Psycho-Education Intervention Program (PEIP)
This intervention will be developed and implement among women who are diagnosed with non-metastatic breast cancer, consisting of two main components, medical education and sharing experiences. The medical education will be provided by clinical oncologist, and the sharing experience support will be offered by a breast cancer survivor. We choose the survivors of cancer to provide a support session because they have experienced cancer and overcome it. Th
Psycho-Education Intervention Program (PEIP) This intervention will be developed and implement among women who are diagnosed with non-metastatic breast cancer, consisting of two main components, medical education and sharing experiences. The medical education will be provided by clinical oncologist, and the sharing experience support will be offered by a breast cancer survivor. We choose the survivors of cancer to provide a support session because they have experienced cancer and overcome it. There will be a calming technique training session provided by voluntary psychiatric therapist.The intervention will be given in two days,the first day will have two sessions and the second day three sessions. Each session includes health message on breast cancer.The title for each session will be (Breast cancer fact, lifestyle/habit, problem-solving skill, interpersonal relationships, sharing experience). Each session will take approximately 2 hours in length delivered by face-to-face interactions, with total 10 hours over two days. The intervention will be prepared in English language, later translated into "Arabic" language. The clinical oncologist will provide the intervention by using open-ended questions to help the patient describe her problem and explain it as a story in her own words. The lectures will be presented in a slide power point presentation and show some videos related to disease. A booklet will be given to all participant in both group (control and intervention),which contains a five health messages. The booklet will be designed as a supplement to the sessions, where it addresses five health messages. The messages were designed according to the breast cancer journey and will be given in parallel with the awareness sessions. In each session, the patient will be given a health message, which will be suitable with the session topic that will be attended.The health messages in the booklet are the same those presented in each psycho-educational session. The aims of booklet to find the best answer for the five questions that well be started in each session, and to reinforcement of knowledge that will be given in program.In order to assess the participants level of compliance and adherence, the will provide attendance log before and after each session of the intervention. why:To enhance the reappraisal of stressful situation that reduce the psychological distress, and promote quality of life through enhancing coping strategies. when: the intervention will start at (8 am till 2 pm) ,three times daily from (8 am -10 am),(10 am-12 md),and (12 md-2 pm). How: It will be two days, each day we will interview a max 50 patients, 17 patients per group. 17* 3 =50 patients/day. where:The location will be the Clinical Radiation Oncology Department (CROD),in Al-Bashir Hospital, which is a multi-specialty teaching hospital, located in the middle zone in the central city of Amman, Jordan.
Sponsors
Mr.Murad Younis
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
20 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1) Jordanian citizen has started chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment. 2) Age group of 20 to 65 years (Al-Sulaiman et al., 2018). 3) Women diagnosis as breast carcinoma according to ICD-10. 4) Women with histologically confirmed with stage (0, I, II or III) of breast cancer. 5) Post-operative period of 6 months to 1 year (Mahapatro and Parkar, 2005). 6) Living permanently in Amman city. 7) Able to read and communicate in Arabic and have telephone number.
Exclusion criteria
1) Women who unable to attend the program or complete the questionnaires due to time constraints. 2) Women with History of psychiatric disorders or chronic systemic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis (Huang and Shi, 2016; Setyowibowo, 2017),(based on the screening from medical files). 3) Women who participating in similar study. 4) Patient with severe depression and anxiety during baseline survey. (Scores as normal 0-7, mild 8-10, moderate 11-14, and severe 14-21).According to HADS.
Outcome results
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