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Effects of a Self-Management Program for Patients With Colorectal Cancer and a Colostomy: A Nonrandomized Clinical
Qin Fen Song1,2,3,4,5,6, Guangxiao Yin1,2,3,4,5,6, Xiaopeng Guo1,2,3,4,5,6
1Qin fen Song, MS, RN, Nursing Department, Dalian University Affiliated Xinhua Hospital, Dalian, China.
Purpose:
We constructed a self-management program for rectal cancer survivors with colostomies and evaluated the effect of the program on self-efficacy, self-management ability, and incidence of stomal and peristomal complications.
Design:
A prospective, nonrandomized clinical trial.
Subjects And Setting:
Participants were recruited from 4 proctology departments in a tertiary hospital in northeast China. Fifty-five were assigned to the intervention group and 56 were assigned to the control group; 26 were lost to follow-up. Therefore, data analysis was based on 43 participants in the intervention group and 42 in the control group.
Methods:
Control group patients received the standard care where guidance and stoma care manuals were given the day before hospital discharge, and regular telephone follow-up twice a month for 3 months. Participants in the experimental group received, in addition to standard care, a self-management program delivered via a multimedia messaging app initiated after discharge available over a 6-week period. Primary outcomes were self-efficacy and self-management ability; we also analyzed the incidence of stomal and peristomal complications as a secondary outcome. Between-groups outcomes were analyzed via a repeated-measures analysis of variance.
Results:
Analysis indicated intervention group participants had higher levels of self-efficacy and self-management of their colostomies than did control group participants. Analysis also revealed intervention group participants had a lower incidence of peristomal complications; no differences in the incidence of stomal complications were found.
Conclusions:
Study findings suggest that use of the multimedia messaging app-based self-management program enhanced self-efficacy and self-management, while reducing the incidence of peristomal complications in rectal cancer survivors with colostomies.
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