Gastric cancer frailty
Conditions
Interventions
Experimental group:Family cohesion intervention plus routine frailty care
Control group:Routine frailty care
Sponsors
School of Nursing, Nanjing Medical University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
60 Years to 100 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients: preoperative pathological basis, clear indication for surgery; proposed radical gastric cancer surgery; screened as high-risk patients with frail heterogeneous trajectories by the prediction model constructed by research group; age =60 years; conscious and able to communicate in simple written and verbal communication; voluntarily cooperated with the participation in the research and signed an informed consent form. Family caregivers: age =18 years; spouse, child, or sibling of patients with high-risk of a frail heterogeneous trajectory; responsible for primary caregiving; conscious and able to communicate normally; voluntary cooperation in this research and signing an informed consent form.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patient: combined severe cardiac, hepatic, pulmonary, and renal insufficiency; physically challenged. Family caregivers: professionally trained in frail care for gastric cancer survivors; in an employment relationship.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Family cohesion and adaptability;Frailty; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| self-efficacy;Quality of life;Adherence to intervention;Postoperative complications;Unplanned readmission rate; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactQin Xu
School of Nursing, Nanjing Medical University
Outcome results
None listed