Breast Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
Hormone therapy, Breast cancer, Cooling pillowcase, Hot flashes, Quality of life
Brief summary
This study was planned to evaluate the effect of education on the management of side effects and the use of cooling pillowcase on hot flush complaints, sleep and quality of life in women with breast cancer receiving hormone therapy.
Detailed description
It is planned to apply pre-test evaluations in the 1st week and post-test evaluations in the 9th week to the intervention (training) group consisting of women with breast cancer who agree to participate in the study. A total of 3 follow-ups will be performed on the patients in the intervention (education) group in weeks 3 and 7 by telephone interview method and in week 5 by face-to-face interview method using the Patient Follow-up Form. In addition, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the education given to the patients in the intervention (education) group, the Practices for Coping with the Side Effects of Hormone Therapy Form will be completed in the 5th and 9th weeks. The control group consisting of women with breast cancer who agreed to participate in the study will be administered pre-test evaluations at week 1 and post-test evaluations at week 9. The patients in the control group will not be subjected to any intervention by the researcher, their routine treatment and care will continue, and they will be followed up only once in the 5th week by phone call.
Interventions
OTHERCooling Pillowcases
No intervention will be given to the patients in the control group.
Sponsors
Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
The intervention group will fill in the 'Patient Information Form, Menopause Specific Hot Flash Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and FACT-B Quality of Life Scale' in the 1st week and will be given training on treatment side effects, training booklet and 'Hot Flash Diary' to record their hot flashes. The use of cooling pillowcase will be explained. In the 5th week, 'Practices for Coping with the Side Effects of Hormone Therapy Form' will be filled out to evaluate the training and the training will be repeated. In the 3rd and 7th weeks, 'Patient Follow-up Form' will be filled by telephone, and in the 5th week face to face. In the 9th week, 'Menopause Specific Hot Flush Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and FACT-B Quality of Life Scale' and 'Practices Form for Coping with Side Effects of Hormone Therapy' will be completed to evaluate the training given in the 5th week. The routine care and treatment of the control group will be continued.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 18 years of age or older, * Estrogen and progesterone receptor positive, stage 1, 2, 3 or 4 primary breast cancer, * Receiving hormone therapy (goserelin acetate subcutaneously every 4 weeks), * Pre/Perimenopausal period, * No sensory and emotional barriers to communication, * Understands Turkish, can read and write, * Patients who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
* Receiving treatment for anxiety and/or depression, * Receiving gabapentin treatment for neuropathic pain, * Active viral or bacterial infection, * Patients with a history of sleep disorders diagnosed before hormone therapy.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Menopausal Hot Flush Scale | nine weeks | All items in the scale are evaluated between '0' and '10' points. The highest score that can be obtained from the scale is '100' and the lowest score is '0'. The higher the score obtained from the scale, the higher the woman's level of being affected by hot flushes. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index | nine weeks | The scale consists of 7 sub-dimensions. Each of the questions including the sub-dimension is scored between 0-3. The total score of the seven sub-dimensions varies between 0-21 and gives the total score of The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. A total score above 5 indicates poor sleep quality. |
| Functional Assessment Of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B) | nine weeks | The responses in the scale are organised in a 5-point Likert scale where '0' means not at all, '1' means very little, '2' means a little, '3' means quite a lot and '4' means very much. Some of the statements in the scale are reversed, and while calculating the total score of the scale, the reversed statements are subtracted from four and the other statements are directly added to the scoring. The total score that can be obtained from the scale varies between 0-148. A higher total score indicates a better quality of life. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Contacts
Primary ContactBasak Turkmen, Msc.
Backup ContactSemiha Akin Eroglu, Prof.
Outcome results
None listed