Effects of Naturalistic Decision-Making Model-based Oncofertility Care Education

Mackay Medical College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Education; Fertility Issues

Treatments: Other: Naturalistic Decision-Making Model-based Oncofertility Care Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04600869

HSM/VGH-2017-01-011AC

Details and patient eligibility

About

his study examined the effects of an oncofertility education program on decisional conflict in nurses caring for breast cancer patients and patients with breast cancer. Other predictors of decisional conflict were also examined.

Full description

Background: Nurses play an essential role in transferring knowledge to patients. However, several factors cause nurses to adopt a negative attitude toward providing oncofertility care.

Objective: This study examined the effects of an oncofertility education program on decisional conflict in nurses caring for breast cancer patients and patients with breast cancer. Other predictors of decisional conflict were also examined.

Design: Randomized, controlled experimental research. Settings and Participants: Patients (61) with breast cancer and nurses (79) were recruited from a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.

Methods: The nursing participants were randomly assigned to receive oncofertility education (experimental group) or usual education (control group). Data from female patients in the control and experimental groups were collected before and after the nurses' educational training, respectively. The oncofertility education consisted of one face-to-face educational session and reading one educational booklet based on the Naturalistic Decision-Making (NDM) Model. The decisional conflict was measured using the Chinese version of the decisional conflict scale.

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 22 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All nurses involved in breast care were recruited into the study.
• Female patients with breast cancer who were younger than 50 years and who were about to start cancer treatment were recruited from one teaching hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.

Exclusion criteria

• Women with a major illness or mental disorder before their cancer diagnosis were excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 1 patient group

Nursing Group

Experimental group

Description:

Nurses in the control group accepted the other non-fertility (standard) nursing training for the intervention, whereas those in the experimental group accepted the oncofertility training. Based on research ethics and design, a standard education course was held for the control group after completing data collection in the nursing experimental group. We began to recruit patients into the patient experimental group after all nurses completed their educational courses.

Treatment:

Other: Naturalistic Decision-Making Model-based Oncofertility Care Education