Develop and Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Self-Care Smartphone Application on the Self-Efficacy, and Resilience Among Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Treatment

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Resilience

Breast Neoplasm

Breast Malignant Tumor

Self-efficacy

Treatments

Device: The Breast Cancer Self-Care App

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05576545

KMUHIRB-E(I)-20200041

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was to develop and evaluate the self-efficacy and resilience of the Breast Cancer Self-Care App in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Full description

This study was to develop and evaluate the self-efficacy and resilience of the Breast Cancer Self-Care App in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. In the first phase of this study, develop a prototype the Breast Cancer Self-Care App by conducting patients interviews. In the second phase, an experimental two-group pretest-posttest quantitative study design to evaluate the self-efficacy and resilience of the Breast Cancer Self-Care App in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The patients were randomized to the experimental and control groups. Patients in the control group received general routine care and patients in the experimental group received general routine care plus the Breast Cancer Self-Care App intervention. Both groups completed a basic demographics, self-efficacy and resilience questionnaires at the pre-test and after four weeks.

Enrollment

73 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Consciousness clear, over 20 years old, can communicate in Mandarin and Taiwanese
Diagnosed Breast Cancer I-III stage
undergo first chemotherapy
Have a smartphone
Receiving treatment: EC/ EC+T/LC/LC+T E: (Epirubicin)、C: (Cyclophosphamide)、L: (Lipo-Dox)、T: (Taxotere)

Exclusion criteria