Effect of Self –Care Guidelines on Quality of Life for Leukemic Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 10, Volume 10, Issue 3, September 2019, Page 138-158 PDF (509.16 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.54386 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Eman Mohamad Ramadan Farag; Eman Tallat Elshamaa; Hanan Shehata Mohamed; Mona Nadr Ebraheim | ||||
| Medical Surgical Nursing department, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Patients with leukemia undergoing chemotherapy have problems and side –effect which considered life –threatened and affect their quality of life . This requires self-care guidelines for those patients to improve their quality of life. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of self-care guidelines on quality of life for patients with leukemia undergoing chemotherapy .study Design: A quasi experimental design. Setting: the study was conducted at the inpatient and outpatient clinics in Hematological Unit affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospital. Study subjects: A purposive sample of adult patients newly diagnosed with leukemia (No=100). Data collection tools: Structured interview questionnaire for the patients with leukemia undergoing chemotherapy, Quality of Life Cancer survivors Questionnaire and Patients Self-care practices observational checklist.Result: 28% of control group and 84% of the study group got total satisfactory level of knowledge post implementation of self-care guidelines with highly statistical significant between them at P value < 0.01, while there was highly statistically significant deference between study and control groups regarding satisfactory level of self-care practices post implementation of self-care guidelines at p-value was <0.01. Moreover, 70% of the patients in the study have good total quality of life post implementation of self-care guidelines with highly statistical significant differences between two groups .Conclusion: Implementation of self-care guiltiness had statistically significant positive effect on quality of life dimensions for patients with leukemia undergoing chemotherapy which support the study hypothesis. Recommendation: Implementing systematically continuous self-care guidelines in hospitals for patients with leukemia, generalization of self-care guidelines for patients with leukemia in other media such as: newspapers, television, and the radio to help improve the health status of these patients and manage the chemotherapy side effects and A simplified, comprehensive and illustrated Arabic language guided booklet with images | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| children; Hemodialysis; Nurses; performance; renal failure | ||||
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