Symptom Management, Education and Telephone Follow-up, Quality of Life,

Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prostate Cancer

Treatments: Other: Education and Telephone Follow-up

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05613881

E-74555795-050.01.04-185078

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was planned as an experimental design study with pretest-posttest control group in order to determine the effects of education and telephone follow-up given to patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer on quality of life and symptom management.The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

• Is the quality of life higher in patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy who are trained and followed up over the phone compared to patients who are only given an education booklet?
• Is symptom management higher in patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy who received training and followed-up over the phone compared to patients who were only given an education booklet?

Full description

The number of samples to be taken in each group was determined as 24 (total 48) with the help of the G-power (version 3.1) package program. Considering the possible losses in the research and in order to increase the power of the study, it was planned to carry out the research with a total of 60 people, 30 people in the experimental and control groups.

While evaluating the findings obtained in the study, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) version 25.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) program will be used for statistical analysis.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 45+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteer to participate in the research,
• Literate and open to communication,
• Knowing the diagnosis,
• Those aged 45 and over,
• Receiving short-term or long-term ADT treatment,
• The patient or his/her relatives have telephone access,

Exclusion criteria

• Having a mental or psychiatric illness that prevents communication,
• Those with vision-hearing problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

EXPERIMENTAL GROUP

Experimental group

Description:

the group to be trained and then monitored by phone

Treatment:

Other: Education and Telephone Follow-up

CONTROL GROUP

No Intervention group

Description:

The individuals in this group will be given only education booklet by the researcher after the pre-tests are applied in the first face-to-face interview. 3 months after the first interview, the final tests will be applied.