Effectiveness of Tailored Rehabilitation Education on Health Literacy and Health Status of Postoperative Patients With Breast Cancer: a Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT02664662 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: Medical University Hospital
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 99
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

For the past few years, the survival rate of breast cancer improved due to the advancement of surgery techniques and popularization of cancer screening. However, prolonged survival rate is definitely not equal to achieving a sound quality of life among breast cancer survivors. The health status of cancer survivors might deteriorate according to the severe side effect of multiple therapies. Health literacy is the ability to access, understand, evaluate and communication information as a way to promote and maintain health. Therefore, good health literacy raise the quality of life of breast cancer survivors by a good competence in searching and using medical resources. Moreover, how to improve health literacy after cancer surgery becomes an important part recently. Even if the most fundamental concept has promoted for decades, the clinical workers still use the identical education of medical care after surgery for breast cancer survivors. However, the identical education is not appropriate for each of patients. In fact, each of breast cancer survivors has the different cancer stage leading to accept different therapy and producing different side effect. Besides, the background and the role of life are very different from each other. Because of the above reasons, the aim of the study is going to develop a tailored rehabilitated education, which fit for each breast cancer patients after surgery in clinic. At the same time, the health literacy ability might be improved by tailored rehabilitated education. When health literacy level is raised, the breast cancer survivors have a good quality of life and beautiful health status.

Conditions

Health Behavior

Keywords

Breast cancer; Health literacy; Tailored education; Rehabilitation; International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Health literacy Assessments in breast cancer

  The Health Literacy scale is five point likert scale of choices, which is evaluated by patient. There are 47 items and the higher scores means the higher literacy performance.

  one month

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Disability of Arm Shoulder and Hand(DASH)

  one month

• Barthel Index

  one month

• Frenchay activities index (FAI)

  one month

• EuroQol-5 dimension (EQ5D)

  one month

• Brief Symptom Rating Scale

  one month

Study Arms (2)

tailored education

EXPERIMENTAL

Tailored rehabilitated education is which fit for each breast cancer patients after surgery in clinic. We design three of tailored books for experimental group. Each patients will be tailored by three principles. First, the educated times and hours are depended on patients physical function and learning ability. Second, the material is depended on each patient's life experience. Finally, the educated content is depended on patient's operation method.

Other: tailored education

standard education

NO INTERVENTION

Only provide one paper of post operation and give education of rehabilitated exercise

Interventions

tailored education OTHER

Tailored rehabilitated education is which fit for each breast cancer patients after surgery in clinic. We design three of tailored books for experimental group. Each patients will be tailored by three principles. First, the educated times and hours are depended on patients physical function and learning ability. Second, the material is depended on each patient's life experience. Finally, the educated content is depended on patient's operation method.

tailored education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Adult patient has been diagnosed breast cancer (age \> 20)
• Have a good motivation and cooperation when accept breast cancer education
• Read words or speak in Chinese fluently

You may not qualify if:

• Diagnoses mental problems
• Patient with Cancer terminal stage and weakness

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Taipei Medical University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Huang Szu-Chi

Taipei, 10561, Taiwan

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Health Behavior; Breast Neoplasms

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Breast Diseases; Skin Diseases; Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Study Officials

• Bi-Chu Lin

  Taipei Medical University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Wen-Hsuan Hou

  Taipei Medical University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 27, 2015
• First Posted: January 27, 2016
• Study Start: March 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2016
• Study Completion: September 1, 2017
• Last Updated: November 22, 2017

Record last verified: 2016-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL

Locations

TW (1)