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The impact of an empowering Internet-based Breast Cancer Patient Pathway program on breast cancer patients' clinical outcomes: a randomised controlled trial.
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Apr2013, Vol. 22 Issue 7-8, p1016-1025, 10p, 2 Diagrams, 4 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Aims and objectives To evaluate the effect of the Breast Cancer Patient Pathway program on breast cancer patient's empowerment process. Background The results of earlier studies indicate that the use of tailored Internet-based patient education programs increased patient's knowledge level; however, other outcome measures differed. Design This randomised control trial studied the effect of the Internet-based patient educational program on breast cancer patients' empowerment. In this study, we measured the quality of life, anxiety and managing with treatment-related side effects as the outcomes of breast cancer patients' empowering process. Methods Breast cancer patients who were Internet users in one Finnish university hospital during 2008-2010 were randomised to the control group ( n = 43) and the intervention group ( n = 47). Baseline data were collected first in the hospital and the following data seven times during the treatment process, the last time one year after breast cancer diagnosis. Results There were no statistically significant differences in the quality of life, anxiety or side effects of treatment between the groups. The amount of treatment-related side effects was connected to both physical and psychological well-being. Conclusions In this study, the Breast Cancer Patient Pathway program did not decrease anxiety level or treatment-related side effects among breast cancer patients or improve subscales of quality of life when compared with controls. Relevance to clinical practice There is a need to relieve the side effects caused by patients' care with the help of patient education. Internet-based patient education programs need more focus when developing new patient education methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EVALUATION of medical care
QUALITY of life
CANCER patients
ANALYSIS of variance
ANXIETY
BREAST tumors
CANCER chemotherapy
CHI-squared test
COMPUTER assisted instruction
STATISTICAL correlation
FISHER exact test
INTERNET
HEALTH outcome assessment
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
RADIOTHERAPY
SCALES (Weighing instruments)
SELF-efficacy
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
STATISTICS
SAMPLE size (Statistics)
DATA analysis
WELL-being
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
TREATMENT effectiveness
REPEATED measures design
STATE-Trait Anxiety Inventory
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
EDUCATION
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09621067
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 7-8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 86026668
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12007