Anxiety
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention group: 45 radiotherapy patients and their respective family (n = 90) will receive two phone calls in the seventh and fifteenth day of treatment. The links will last about fifteen minutes
Other
Sponsors
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria/ Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação
CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 100 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: patient: age less than 18 years, both sexes, have handset available with signal capture. Family: age less than 18 years; both sexes; be present with the patient in the first nursing consultation in the radiotherapy clinic. The population of study will be composed to 90 persons in the interventional group and 90 persons in the control group.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patient: absence of medical conditions, cognitive and / or communication. Family: lack of health conditions, cognitive and/or communication.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Expected outcome: Reduction of anxiety scores identified by IDATE, in three weeks and verified by the Student t test, considering a variation of at least 10% in pre and post-intervention measurements. Outcome found: Reduction of anxiety scores identified by IDATE, in three weeks and verified by the Student t test, considering a variation of at least 11.1% in the pre- and post-intervention measurements (p 0.036) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary outcomes are expected not. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactNara;Nara Girardon - Perlini;Oliveira Girardon-Perlini
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UFSM;Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UFSM
Outcome results
None listed