Multidisciplinary Education in Lung Cancer Patients Who Receiving Chemotherapy Treatment

Rajavithi Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: multidisciplinary education programme; Behavioral: standard education

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01546233

RajavithiMultidisciplinary01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the fatigue in lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy treatment, between the education programme in self-care a multidisciplinary with the group who received standard care.

Full description

Educate of self-care by Oncology nurses to relieve and prevent the fatigue of cancer chemotherapy, and provide the manual to read at home, take about 15 minutes. By using home exercise program, 30 minutes of physical education. Teaching and demonstration exercises of the muscles to breath and conservation of energy during exercise and record the exercise/walking diary, the nutritional education nutrition counseling, psychiatric assessment,self-care prevention of depression.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Aged 45-65 years.
2. Has been diagnosed lung cancer stages 3-4 must be chemotherapy is platinum-based, and had received chemotherapy for at least one time, must be in the range of 2-4 cycles of chemotherapy.
3. Performance status: ECOG 0-1
4. No problem hearing it.
5. Read and write Thai.
6. Be willing to cooperate in research. And signed a joint research

Exclusion criteria

1. The complications include: high fever, severe nausea and vomiting.
2. Injection drug use in diabetes treatment.
3. Ischemic heart disease with heart arrhythmia and the drug continuously.
4. Is unable to daily living. Caused by defects in movement, and severe osteoarthritis, muscle atrophy, paralysis or walking flat less than 10 meters.

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

multidisiplinary self care program

Description:

Patient with Lung cancer will be participated in group education with multidisiplinary self care program

Treatment:

Behavioral: multidisciplinary education programme

Conventional education

Description:

Lung cancer patient will be received standard education

Treatment:

Behavioral: standard education