Effect of the Supportive-Educative Nursing Program on Phlebitis Occurrence among Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy
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This quasi-experimental research, with a two-group posttest design, aimed to investigate the effect of the Supportive-Educative Nursing (SEN) program on the occurrence of phlebitis among thirty-eight cancer patients receiving chemotherapy at a university hospital. The participants were divided equally into a control group (n = 19) receiving routine care and an experimental group (n = 19) receiving routine care and participating in the SEN program. The research instruments comprised 1) the SEN program based on Orem's concept, 2) a chemotherapy-induced phlebitis severity scale, and 3) a chemotherapy-induced phlebitis occurrence record form with an inter-rater reliability of .88. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, and the Fisher’s exact test.
The results revealed that the percentage of chemotherapy-induced phlebitis occurrence and the grade of chemotherapy-induced phlebitis severity at 24 hours, 48 hours, and 72 hours after receiving chemotherapy for the experimental group was significantly lower than that of the control group, at a p-value of .01 and .05 respectively. These findings support that the SEN program can enhance self-care for preventing phlebitis and reducing its severity among cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Therefore, this SEN program can be integrated with routine care to prevent phlebitis among cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.
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