recurrent/metastatic cancer
Conditions
Interventions
Interventional interviews by a nurse are conducted once before surgery and twice after surgery. The interviews are designed to utilize primary cancer surgery experience and achieve strategies to cop
Sponsors
Chiba University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1) Patients underwent surgery for primary cancer and are scheduled for surgery for recurrent/metastatic cancer 2) Twenty years old or older at the time of primary cancer diagnosis. 3) Those who know their diagnosis. 4) Surgery is performed for the purpose of cancer treatment, not for symptom relief. 5) Those who can recall past experiences of illness and treatment, and express current feelings and thoughts verbally. 6) Their psychological states are stable even if they remember experiences of illness and treatment.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1) Patients cannot recall past experiences of illnesses and treatment, and express verbally.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Changes in attitudes and approaches to disease and treatment: subjective and qualitative evaluation by participants | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Self efficacy: Self-efficacy Scale for Cancer Patients (Tsukamoto, 1998) Posttraumatic Growth: Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-Japanese; PTGI-J (Taku, 2008) | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactMiyuki Konishi
Graduate School of Nursing, Chiba University Department of Advanced Clinical Nursing
Outcome results
None listed