The Effects of Nutritional Self-management Promotion Program on Fatigue among Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Radiotherapy at Nakornping Hospital
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This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effects of a nutritional self-management promotion program on the fatigue condition of cancer patients being treated with radiotherapy. The samples consisted of 60 cancer patients receiving radiotherapy at Nakornping hospital selected by inclusion criteria. They were assigned into an experimental group and a control group by simple random sampling with thirty patients in each group. Whilst the subjects in the control group received standard care, those in the experimental group underwent a nutritional self-management promotion program. The data were collected during November 2023 to January 2024. The instruments used to collect data included a personal data questionnaire, a disease and treatment information questionnaire, and a fatigue questionnaire. The experimental instruments consisted of the self-management promotion program, handbook, and a record book of self-management. The reliability of fatigue questionnaire was 0.97, tested by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Chi-square, independent t-test and dependent t-test.
The results of this study revealed that after receiving the nutritional self-management promotion program, the fatigue level of the experimental group decreased significantly (t = 4.52, p = .000), compared to the level prior to the program. In addition, the experimental group’s fatigue level was significantly lower than that of the control group (t = 13.86, p = .000).
The findings of this study indicate the effectiveness of the nutritional self-management promotion program in promoting nutritious behaviors among breast cancer patients receiving radiotherapy which resulted in reduced fatigue.
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