1. Impact of educational interventions on psychological distress during allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a randomized study
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Franziska Michaela Lohmeyer, Alessandra Giraldi, Andrea Bacigalupo, Paola Garau, Stefano Botti, Maurizio Zega, Marco Cioce, Simona Sica, Marinella Magini, Valerio De Stefano, Maria Carola Gifuni, Danilo Celli, Rossana Moroni, Vezio Savoia, Gianpaolo Gargiulo, Ivana Serra, Umberto Moscato, Fabio Ciceri, and Francesca Bonifazi
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Quality of life ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Patient engagement ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Therapeutic patient education ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,lcsh:RC633-647.5 ,business.industry ,lcsh:Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs ,Hematology ,Vein occlusion ,Transplantation ,Infectious Diseases ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Anxiety ,Original Article ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Psychological support ,therapeutic patient education, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, quality of life, psychological support, patient engagement ,Patient education - Abstract
Background Physical and psychological factors, like wrong attitudes and behaviours, can negatively influence health outcomes of the patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT). Educational interventions aiming to improve knowledge on side effects, risks, complications and preventive behaviour can reduce psychological distress, and improve quality of life (QoL). We aimed to compare a standard approach with therapeutic patient education (TPE) to analyse the impact on AHSCT patients’ QoL, psychological distress and knowledge of AHSCT side effects, risks complications and preventive behaviour. Material and methods A prospective interventional study was conducted analysing data of 36 patients who received one of two different educational approaches, which were a standard approach (not-exposed) or TPE (exposed). Results In the exposed group QoL improved 14 days after transplantation (42.2 vs 25.6; p
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- 2020
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