Raymond L Ownby, Kamilah Thomas-Purcell, Donrie Purcell, Joshua Caballero, Sweta Tewary, Rosemary Davenport, Michael Simonson
A mobile app providing individually-tailored psychoeducation about sleep for older adults with chronic health conditions and low health literacy
Journal of psychiatry research reviews & reports
aim development lymphedema postbreastcancer surgery identified significant burden worldwide nurses forefront prevention risk reduction practices prevention crucial importance avoid lymphedema formation complications study aims assess knowledge gained educational session regarding risk reduction prevention breast cancerrelated lymphedema bcrl among nursing professionals compare pretest posttest knowledge methods material research approach quantitative nature design adopted preexperimental onegroup pretest posttest design study conducted 400bed multispecialty teaching hospital bangalore karnataka obtaining formal permission authorities participants approached informed purpose study eightyfour staff nurses working breast cancerrelated lymphedema bcrl patients participated study data study collected using validated questionnaire based national lymphedema networks nln breast cancerrelated lymphedema bcrl risk reduction preventive guidelines questionnaire consisted two sections section consisted staff nurses demographic data section b consisted questions risk reduction prevention lymphedema pretest conducted followed structured teaching session risk reduction prevention lymphedema among 84 staff nurses working bcrl patients teaching session posttest conducted results descriptive inferential statistics used analysis study ttest determined statistical significance using software spss spss inc released 2007 spss windows version 160 chicago spss inc result showed mean knowledge score 4286 sd 097 pretest increased 4452 sd 1511 significant pvalue 0001 conclusion according studys findings nurses must get standardized lymphedema training order prevent lymphedema developing patients breast cancer surgery studys outcome implications focus areas nurses context teams adoption dissemination breast cancerrelated lymphedema preventive measures key messages study 1 bcrl irreversible progressive complication cure diagnosed early 2 poor knowledge lymphedema prevention among nurses leads frustration bcrl patients 3 risk reduction prevention education enable patient reduce bcrl complications minimize severity condition improve quality life 4 prehabilitation patient education early diagnosis risk reductionprevention bcrl reduces cost time energy patient health care delivery system