Advances in Nursing & Midwifery

چکیده

Abstract

In women with cancer, the quality of life and their performance level would be affected, thus

awareness about patient quality of life helps the nurses to lead their care for improving the patients’

quality of life. Despite of majority of performed studies, the emphasis is on patients’ problems

rather than families, So it is necessary for improving the patient quality of life to take into

consideration those factors which are important for family .The purpose of this study was to

determine the effect of consultation with family on performance scale of women’s quality of life

with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.

Materials and methods

This research is a semi-experimental study,70 married women aged 30-55 years old who had at

least 1child older than 15 year , undergoing chemotherapy with previous record of mastectomy

and they have been referred to clinics located in two cities, Qazvin and Zanjan, were included in

the study. Participants were allocated in two -experiment and control-groups. For subjects in

experiment group 8 consultation sessions with family was designed, the sessions were held with

the presence of patient, spouse and children .The patients’ quality of life in both groups was

measured at the beginning and at the end of final consultation session. Quality of life was assessed

by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire

(EORTC QLQ-C30) and its supplementary breast cancer measure (QLQ-BR23) .The data were

analyzed using SPSS version 15.

Findings

Results showed that quality of life of patients who had participated in consultation sessions was

improved (P<0/05).The improvement was seen in physical functioning, emotional, role functioning

,cognitive and social functioning subscales of quality of life measure, andin body image, sexual

functioning , sexual enjoyment and future perspective subscales of BR 23 questionnaire.

Conclusion

with respect to present research’s findings which demonstrate the effect of consultation with family

on improvement of patients’ performance level, hence the family can have a particular position on

protecting patients and improvement quality of life, therefore it is offered the designed program of

taking consult with family would be applied as an affective way on improvement quality of life for

these patients.

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