Effects of Counselling on Quality of Life among Cancer Patients in Malaysia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Effects of Counselling on Quality of Life among Cancer Patients in Malaysia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

We aimed to assess whether "Managing Patients on Chemotherapy" book is effective to improve quality of life (QOL) of cancer patient via counselling by pharmacist. A randomized control trial study was run among 2120 cancer patients in public hospitals in Peninsular Malaysia, from Apr 2016-J...

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Veröffentlicht in:Iranian journal of public health 2020-10, Vol.49 (10), p.1902-1911
Hauptverfasser: Periasamy, Ummavathy, Mohd-Sidik, Sherina, Akhtari-Zavare, Mehrnoosh, Rampal, Lekhraj, Ismail, Siti Irma Fadhilah, Mahmud, Rozi
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Sprache:eng
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Cancer
Cancer patients
Chemotherapy
Counseling
Counselling
Malaysia
Original
Patients
Pharmacist
Pharmacists
Quality of life
Variance analysis
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Zusammenfassung:We aimed to assess whether "Managing Patients on Chemotherapy" book is effective to improve quality of life (QOL) of cancer patient via counselling by pharmacist. A randomized control trial study was run among 2120 cancer patients in public hospitals in Peninsular Malaysia, from Apr 2016-Jan 2018. The treatment group received counselling regarding chemotherapy by using developed module. The data were collected at three time-points: baseline, 1 , 2 and 3 follow-ups after counseling by Validated Malay version of the WHOQOL-BREF of questionnaire. Data analyses were done using χ and two-way repeated measure ANOVA. The treatment group improved significantly as compared to control group in physical health, psychological health, social relationship, environment and overall QOL (
ISSN:2251-6085
2251-6093
DOI:10.18502/ijph.v49i10.4693