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The Effect of Training and Follow-up Given to Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy According to the Neuman Systems Model on the Development of Oral Mucositis and Perceptions of Comfort in Patients

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Cancer
Interventions
Behavioral: Training and Follow-up According to the Neuman Systems Model
Registration Number
NCT05991544
Lead Sponsor
Ataturk University
Brief Summary

It is aimed to prevent the development of oral mucositis or to reduce the severity of developing oral mucositis with the training to be given to patients receiving chemotherapy according to the Neuman systems model.

Detailed Description

Oral mucositis is a health problem that is commonly seen in patients receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which seriously affects the quality of life and comfort of patients. In the literature, the importance of nursing education in supporting patients has been emphasized, as well as controlling the side effects in patients receiving chemotherapy and systematically evaluating the side effects. The training program to be planned in this context will increase the self-efficacy of patients and their ability to cope with the disease. Studies have shown that planned health education effectively supports knowledge, increases participation in treatment processes, and reduces anxiety. Nurses use various nursing interventions such as coaching, face-to-face education programs, telephone monitoring and home care while providing training in symptom management.

Theories and models in nursing include a set of ideas about people, health-illness, and society that will guide the care of patients.

Nurses can be successful in providing holistic care only through the use of nursing models. By using these models, nursing activities are shifting from service-oriented to patient-oriented service. In addition, the basic concepts and relations between the concepts are determined, problems are defined and solutions can be developed. Neuman Systems Model (NSM), one of these models, adopts the open system approach and the concept of holistic maintenance. The model, whose reliability and scientific aspect has been tried since the day it emerged, has contributed to nursing practices and systematized the nursing care plan. NSM offers a holistic approach to patients by including psychological, physiological, spiritual, sociocultural and five major developmental variables of the individual.

Therefore, it is a suitable model to be used for nursing practices. In this study, NSM will be used in order to evaluate patients holistically and to meet their needs during the treatment process. With the planned training and follow-up to be given to cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, the patients were followed closely for 3 months, and it will provide significant benefits both for the patient and the country's economy by monitoring the development of oral mucositis or providing the management of developing oral mucositis. By preventing the development of oral mucositis, patients will have a more comfortable process and will contribute to the country's economy by preventing hospitalizations. Because oral mucositis causes pain enough to require the use of narcotic drugs and increases the need for total parenteral nutrition. This situation increases the hospital costs and harms the country's economy. The fact that oral mucositis does not develop during the chemotherapy process will allow the treatment process to be comfortable and more effective for the patient.In the light of all this information; It is aimed to prevent the development of oral mucositis or to reduce the severity of developing oral mucositis with the training to be given to patients receiving chemotherapy according to the Neuman systems model. In this direction, it is thought that the study will make a serious contribution to the literature.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
94
Inclusion Criteria

Receiving chemotherapy treatment No mental or communication problems, Volunteering to participate in research. having internet, Having at least primary education level, Being able to use smart phone and internet. Being on treatment that causes methotrexate, Cispilatin, Cyclophoshamide, 5-fluorouracil group oral mucositis.

Exclusion Criteria

lack of internet illiteracy

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
ExperimentalTraining and Follow-up According to the Neuman Systems ModelTraining and Follow-up According to the Neuman Systems Model
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Comfort Perception Scale in Oral Mucositis12 week

The scale was developed in 2019 by Erden and İpek Çoban to evaluate the perception of comfort in patients with oral mucositis. The scale consists of 31 items and 2 sub-dimensions.

Oral Mucositis Grading Index:12 week

Developed by the World Health Organization and

It is a staging scale. Grade 0: No symptoms. Grade 1: Pain or erythema. Grade 2: Painful, erythema, edema or ulcer present, but the patient can take solid foods. Grade 3:

There is pain, erythema, edema or ulcer, the patient can only take liquid foods. Grade 4: No feeding.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Atatürk university nursing faculty

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Erzurum, Center, Turkey

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