[Effects of telephone intervention as supportive nursing on self-care practices and qualify of life for gynecological cancer patients under chemotherapy].
OBJECTIVE
The effects of telephone intervention on self-care practices and quality of life for gynecological cancer patients under chemotherapy was investigated.


METHODS
A non-equivalent control group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design was used. The subjects were women cancer patients who had received less than two chemotherapy sessions at C university hospital of Chonnam province(26 in the experimental group: 25 in the control group). The patient's self-care practices(Na & Lee, 1999; Jang, 2004) and quality of life(Lee & Jo, 1997) were measured three times. using a questionnaire. The data was analyzed by Repeated Measures ANOVA, the Friedman test, and the Mann-Whitney test using the SPSS window version 12.0 program.


RESULTS
This study showed that the score of self-care practices and quality of life for the experimental group under telephone counseling were higher than those of the control group.


CONCLUSIONS
This study revealed that a telephone intervention as supportive nursing care for women cancer patients under going chemotherapy was effective for self-care practices and qualify of life during the recovery period. Futhermore, this study also suggests that telephone counseling can serve as a continuing nursing supportive intervention for women cancer patients for the upcoming stages of further chemotherapy.
Kim
Ae-Sook
AS
Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital.
Lee
Eun-Sook
ES
Kim
Sung-Hyo
SH
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011788:Quality of Life; D012648:Self Care; D013041:Specialties, Nursing; D013689:Telephone; D013997:Time Factors