Effect of Health Educational Program on the Performance of Home Caregivers of Children with Cancer about Side Effects of Chemotherapy | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 1556-1572 PDF (556.29 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2024.404340 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Asmaa Mohamed Ahmed Madkour1; Fatma Elzahraa Kamal Alsayed Ali2; Shadia Abd Elmoniem Syan2 | ||
| 1Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University | ||
| 2Assistant professor of pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Children and families impacted by cancer generally face debilitating, unpleasant, and often difficult-to-manage symptoms. Symptom management is a basis of potentially preventable complications (ppc), which supports the need for early incorporation of ppc. Aim: assess the effectiveness of health educational program on the performance of home caregivers of children with cancer about side effects of chemotherapy. Research Design: A Quasi-experimental research design was utilized in this research. Subjects: Included a purposive sampling of 124 home caregivers of children with cancer at pediatric outpatient clinic at Sohag Oncology Institute in Sohag City. Tools of data collection: Two tools included Tool I: A structured Interviewing Questionnaire Sheet (demographic data of the home caregivers and their children, home caregiver's knowledge on side effects of chemotherapy), Tool (II): observational checklist to assess the skill of the home caregivers of children with cancer. Results: The majority of the studied caregivers (88.7%) had poor knowledge while only (2.4%) of them had good knowledge before health educational program compared to fifty-six percent of them (56.5%) had good knowledge after implementation of health educational program. A statistically significant difference was present between the pretest and posttest scores of the caregiver total knowledge and practice regarding the side effects of chemotherapy. Conclusion: Caregivers' knowledge as well as practices related to the side effects of chemotherapy were enhanced after the implementation of health educational program. Recommendations: Oncology nurses and experts should think about creating instructional booklets for caregivers to reference various kinds of cancer and treatment methods. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Children; chemotherapy; Caregivers' performance& health educational program | ||
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